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The relationship between cirral activity and oxygen uptake in Balanus balanoides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

R. C. Newell  and
H. R. Northcroft
R. C. Newell
Affiliation:
Department of zoology, Westfield College, University of London*
H. R. Northcroft
Affiliation:
Department of zoology, Westfield College, University of London*
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The rate of cirral beat of Balanus balanoides is related to the logarithm of the body weight as an exponential function. In any one animal, there is little effect of temperature on cirral activity between 7·5° and 10° C. Between 10° and 20° C, however, there is a rapid increase in cirral beat with temperature followed by a fall at temperatures above 20° C.

Balanus balanoides exhibits a fast, medium and zero rate of oxygen consumption. These rates of oxygen consumption correspond with (a) normal cirral beating, (b) ‘testing’ activity with no cirral movement, and (c) with the closure of the mantle cavity. Both of the possible levels of oxygen uptake are related to the logarithm of the body weight in a logarithmic fashion over the temperature range 7·5°–22·5° C. Temperature affects the two rates of oxygen consumption differently. In the slower rate (rate B) there is an increase in the rate of oxygen consumption between 7·5° and 14° C but there is no significant increase in the rate of oxygen consumption between 14° and 22·5 C°.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , June 1965 , pp. 387 - 403
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1965

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