OSMOREGULATION AND SALINITY TOLERANCE IN 2 SPECIES OF BIVALVE MOLLUSK - LIMNOPERNA-FORTUNEI AND MYTILOPSIS-LEUCOPHAETA
OSMOREGULATION AND SALINITY TOLERANCE IN 2 SPECIES OF BIVALVE MOLLUSK - LIMNOPERNA-FORTUNEI AND MYTILOPSIS-LEUCOPHAETA
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DOI:
10.1016/0022-0981(89)90158-5
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发表时间:
1989-01-01
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2
通讯作者:
GREENBERG, MJ
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作者:
DEATON, LE;DERBY, JGS;GREENBERG, MJ
This paper reports on salinity tolerance and osmotic regulation in two bivalve molluscs: Mytilopsis leucophaeta Conrad, an oligohaline species (subclass Heterodonta), and Limnoperna fortunei Dunker, a freshwater species (subclass Pteriomorphia). The range of osmolality tolerated by Mytilopsis is 5-400 mOsm. Limnoperna survives in deionized water and in osmolalities of .ltoreq. 400 mOsm. Both species are osmotic and ionic conformers in media with concentrations of > 70 mOsm; at lower ambient osmolalities, both are hyperosmotic regulators. The major hemolymph ions are Na+ and Cl-; acclimation to dilute media results in hypercalemia in both species. The amino acid content of Mytilopsis soft tissues is 182 .mu.mol .cntdot. g-1 dry wt in animals acclimated to 10 mOsm. The tissue levels of amino acids increase to 405 .mu.mol .cntdot. g-1 in Mytilopsis acclimated to 400 mOsm. The free amino acid content of Limnoperna mantle tissue is 9.6 .mu.mol .cntdot. g-1 dry wt in animals acclimated to 10 mOsm and increases to 35 .mu.mol .cntdot. g-1 in animals acclimated to 200 mOsm. The differences in osmoregulatory behavior between the two species appear to be quantitative rather than qualitative, despite the phyletic distance between them.