Factors affecting the circatidal rhythm in vertical swimming of ovigerous blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus, involved in the spawning migration

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 299, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 255-266

  Forward Jr , Richard B ^a   Cohen, Jonathan H ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue crab; Callinectes sapidus; Circatidal rhythm; Spawning migration; Vertical migration

Indexed keywords

CRAB; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; SPAWNING; SWIMMING; VERTICAL MIGRATION;

CALLINECTES; CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PORTUNIDAE;

EID: 1042290296     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2003.09.008     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Broom D.M. Methods of detecting and analyzing activity rhythms. Biol. Behav. 1:1979;3-18.
2. Chatfield C. The Analysis of Time Series: An Introduction. 1989;Chapman & Hall, New York.
3. Cronin T.W., Forward R.B. Jr. The visual pigments of crabs. J. Comp. Physiol. 162:1988;463-478.
4. De Vries M.C., Epifanio C.E., Dittel A.I. Lunar rhythms in the egg hatching of the subtidal crustacean Callinectes arcuatus Ordway (Decapoda: Brachyura). Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci. 17:1983;717-724.
5. De Vries M.C., Rittschof D., Forward R.B. Jr. Chemical mediation of larval release behavior in the crab Neopanope sayi. Biol. Bull. (Woods Hole). 180:1991;1-11.
6. Dowse H.G., Ringo J.M. The search for hidden periodicities in biological time series revisited. J. Theor. Biol. 139:1989;487-515.
7. Forward R.B. Jr. Diel vertical migration: zooplankton photobiology and behavior. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Annu. Rev. 26:1988;361-393.
8. Forward R.B. Jr., Tankersley R.A. Selective tidal-stream transport of marine animals. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Annu. Rev. 39:2001;305-353.
9. Forward R.B. Jr., Lohman K., Cronin T.W. Rhythms in larval release by an estuarine crab (Rhithropanopeus harrisii). Biol. Bull. (Woods Hole). 163:1982;287-300.
10. Forward R.B. Jr., Rittschof D., De Vries M.C. Peptide pheromones synchronize crustacean egg hatching and larval release. Chem. Senses. 12:1987;491-498.
11. Forward R.B. Jr., Tankersley R.A., Pochelon P.N. Circatidal activity rhythms in ovigerous blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus: implications for ebb-tide transport during the spawning migration. Mar. Biol. 142:2003;67-76.
12. Levine J., Funes P., Dowse H., Hall J. Signal analysis of behavioral and molecular cycles. BMC Neurosci. 3:2002;1-25.
13. Rittschof D., Forward R.B. Jr., Simons D.A., Reddy P.A., Erickson B.W. Peptide analogues of the mud crab pumping pheromone: structure-function studies. Chem. Senses. 14:1989;137-148.
14. Tankersley R.A., Forward R.B. Jr. Endogenous swimming rhythms in estuarine crab megalopae: implications for flood-tide transport. Mar. Biol. 118:1994;415-423.
15. Tankersley R.A., Wieber M.G., Sigala M.A., Kachurak K.A. Migratory behavior of ovigerous blue crabs Callinectes sapidus: evidence for selective tidal-stream transport. Biol. Bull. (Woods Hole). 195:1998;168-173.
16. Tankersley R.A., Bullock T.M., Forward R.B. Jr., Rittschof D. Larval release behaviors in the blue crab Callinectes sapidus: role of chemical cues. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 273:2002;1-14.