关键词:
Tigriopus
differential scanning calorimetry
supercooling point
melting point
subzero survival
osmoconformer
supralittoral rockpools
摘要:
Cold-resistance studies of marine invertebrates have concentrated on intertidal sedentary organisms, which are often subjected to subzero air temperatures in winter. Mobile rock Fool inhabitants have been rarely studied because such habitats are thought to buffer environmental variation. However, it is not uncommon for small upper-shore rock pools (similar to 2 by 1 cm) to become completely frozen. Such supralittoral habitats art subject to extreme physicochemical fluctuations especially in salinity (0 to 300 parts per thousand) and temperature (-1 to +32 degrees C) due to evaporation and dilution. The dominant invertebrate in such habitats is the harpacticoid copepod Tigriopus brevicornis. Aspects of the cryobiology of T. brevicornis were investigated using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). Thermograms obtained from DSC allowed determinations of freeze-onset (supercooling point, SCP), melt-onset, and melt-peak (melting point, MP) temperatures, together with estimation of the proportion of water freezing in the samples. The effects of acclimation salinity, temperature, starvation, and reproductive state on these cryobiological parameters were investigated. Acclimation to increasing salinity depressed the SCP,with the highest salinity (70 parts per thousand) producing the lowest SCP, melt-onset, and MP temperatures at -27.5, -15.2, and -9.5 degrees C respectively. The highest acclimation temperature (20 degrees C) produced the lowest SCP (-23.4 degrees C). Starvation significantly increased the SCP, melt-onset, and MP temperatures in comparison to fed individuals acclimated to the same salinity. The presence of eggs or ovaries in individual copepods elevated the SCP compared to nongravid females and males. LT50 studies showed that acclimation to high salinity improved the ability of T. brevicornis to survive in frozen seawater. Seventy parts per thousand acclimated individuals had an LT50 of 64.9 h compared with just 1.4 h for 5 parts per thousand acclimated i