Temperature and embryonic development in polar marine invertebrates

Clarke, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7582-3074. 1982 Temperature and embryonic development in polar marine invertebrates. International Journal of Invertebrate Reproduction, 5 (2). 71-82. https://doi.org/10.1080/01651269.1982.10553456

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References  Citations Metrics  Reprints & Permissions Get access Abstract The life-history tactics of many Antarctic marine invertebrates suggest that the commonly observed slow rates of growth are adaptations to the pattern of food availability, and not due to low temperature per se. This implies that marine invertebrates have been able, over the course of evolutionary time, to compensate their rates of embryonic development for the effect of temperature. Data from north Atlantic copepods indicate that this is so. It is therefore suggested that the slow rates of embryonic development in many Antarctic marine invertebrates are the result of large egg size, and not the low temperature. Large, slowly developing eggs are part of a suite of tactics, often called K-strategies, which characterise many marine invertebrates in Antarctica.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1080/01651269.1982.10553456
ISSN:	0165-1269
Additional Keywords:	life history tactics, embryonic development, egg size, k-strategies, temperature adaptation
Date made live:	16 Jul 2019 11:20 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/524317

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