Metabolic differences between “demersal” and “pelagic” development of the Antarctic sea urchin Sterechinus neumayeri |
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Authors: | A G Marsh D T Manahan |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, LosAngeles, California 90089-0371, USA, US;(2) College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware, Lewes, Delaware 19958, USA Fax: 001 (302) 645-4028 e-mail: amarsh@udel.edu, US |
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Abstract: | Early development of the Antarctic sea urchin Sterechinus neumayeri was examined under two differ-ent culture regimes: one to simulate development near-bottom (“demersal development”) and the
other to simulate the development of embryos in the water column (“pelagic development”). When embryos of both treatments
reached the hatching blastula stage at 5 d post-fertilization (−1.5 °C), the blastulae that had undergone demersal development
evidenced significant differences (by ANOVA or suitable non-parametric comparison) in the following: a thicker blastoderm
layer (12%, P < 0.001), higher ash-free dry weights (19%, P < 0.01), lower mass-specific respiration rates (50%, P < 0.001), higher incorporation rates of 35S-methionine into protein (23%, P < 0.003), and a differential pattern of protein synthesis. When embryos developed demersally, they remained in the jelly-coat
material released with the eggs at spawning. Quantitative isolation of this jelly-coat material in S. neumayeri demonstrated that it contained a significant amount of organic matter, 115 ng ash-free dry mass per egg, equivalent to 17%
of the egg's initial organic mass. Uptake of external nutrients during embryogenesis may be a significant component of the
physiological energetics of this polar invertebrate by allowing the utilization of jelly-coat material released by a female
during spawning.
Received: 21 April 1999 / Accepted: 5 June 2000 |
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