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Ammonia output by eggs and larvae of the lumpsucker, Cyclopterus lumpus, the cod, Gadus morhua and the plaice, Pleuronectes platessa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2009

John Davenport ,
Sunniva Lønning  and
Elin Kjørsvik
John Davenport
Affiliation:
N.E.R.C. Unit of Marine Invertebrate Biology, Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, Gwynedd, LL59 5EH
Sunniva Lønning
Affiliation:
Institute of Biology and Geology, University of Tromsø, P.O. Box 790, 6–9001 Tromsø, Norway
Elin Kjørsvik
Affiliation:
Institute of Biology and Geology, University of Tromsø, P.O. Box 790, 6–9001 Tromsø, Norway
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Abstract

Cod and plaice eggs show a gradually increasing rate of ammonia excretion during development and in neither species was there a great change in individual output at hatching. The rates of ammonia excretion recorded for cod and plaice larvae were similar to those recorded for planktonic Crustacea of comparable size by Conover & Corner (1968).

Lumpsucker eggs and larvae have a basically low rate of ammonia excretion (consistent with their slow rate of development and low oxygen consumption), but much ammonia was released from the eggs in the first day or two after spawning. This ammonia was of non-metabolic origin, but was not accumulated from the ovarian fluid prior to spawning. Lumpfish eggs become very sticky when they are first exposed to sea water, but this stickiness is lost within 24 h. Stickiness stems from a viscous elastic slime; it is suggested that the non-metabolic output of ammonia is caused by changes in the composition of the slime as the eggs are bound together in a lattice.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 63 , Issue 3 , August 1983 , pp. 713 - 723
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1983

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