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The endogenous locomotor activity rhythm of four supralittoral peracarid crustace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2009

John A. Williams
John A. Williams
Affiliation:
Department of Oceanography, The University, Southampton, SO9 5NH
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Abstract

The ‘strength’ of the endogenous locomotor activity rhythm of four peracarid crustacean species, denned by the precision and persistence of the rhythm, was examined with particular reference to a ‘burrowing’ versus epifaunal supralittoral life-style. The ‘strength’ of the endogenous component of the activity rhythm was also illustrated using a modified periodogram analysis. In all species, the talitrid amphipods Talitrus saltator, Talorchestia deshayesi, Orchestra gammarella and the oniscoid isopod Ligia oceanica, the laboratory-monitored rhythm and the field emergence pattern displayed a nocturnal, circadian pattern with no clear evidence of any circa-tidal influence. The precision and particularly the persistence of the rhythm of the sand-shore burrowing species T. saltator and T. deshayesi are especially well developed, although a ‘strong’ endogenous component is present in the rhythm of all four species. The significance of the endogenous locomotor rhythms is considered with respect to the supralittoral ecology of the species.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 63 , Issue 2 , May 1983 , pp. 481 - 492
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1983

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