Effects of reduced salinities on metamorphosis of a freshwater-tolerant sesarmid crab, Armases roberti: Is upstream migration in the megalopa stage constrained by increasing osmotic stress?

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 338, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 134-139

  Torres, Gabriela ^a,b   Anger, Klaus ^a   Giménez, Luis ^a,c  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Crustaceans; Estuarine; Larval biology; Limnic; Metamorphosis; Ontogenetic migrations; Salinity tolerance

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRUSTACEAN; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HABITAT TYPE; LABORATORY METHOD; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS; MIGRATION; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; OSMOREGULATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SALINITY; STRESS; TOLERANCE;

CENTRAL AMERICA;

ARMASES ROBERTI; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); SESARMIDAE;

EID: 33748449990     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2006.07.003     Document Type: Article

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