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Egg hatching times of Antarctic copepods

Ward, Peter; Shreeve, Rachael. 1998 Egg hatching times of Antarctic copepods. Polar Biology, 19 (2). 142-144. https://doi.org/10.1007/s003000050225

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Abstract/Summary

Egg hatching times were determined at a range of temperatures for four species of commonly occurring Antarctic copepods. At a given temperature the eggs of Rhincalanus gigas took longest to hatch, up to 9 days at 0°C, followed by those of Calanoides acutus, Calanus propinquus and Calanus simillimus. A Bělehrádeks temperature function with the parameter b fixed at −2.05 accounted for >95% of the variance for each species. There was an approximate doubling in hatching times between 5°C and 0°C for R. gigas and for the other species the increase in embryonic duration was 40–50% at the lower temperature.

Item Type: Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.1007/s003000050225
Programmes: BAS Programmes > Pre 2000 programme
ISSN: 0722-4060
Date made live: 26 Feb 2014 11:22 +0 (UTC)
URI: https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/505026

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