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Patterns of variation in the dry body weight of Calanus finmarchicus in copepodite Stage V during autumn and winter in the Firth of Clyde

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

H. Grigg ,
L. J. Holmes  and
S. J. Bardwell
H. Grigg
Affiliation:
University Marine Biological Station Millport, Isle of Cumbrae, Scotland, KA28 OEG
L. J. Holmes
Affiliation:
University Marine Biological Station Millport, Isle of Cumbrae, Scotland, KA28 OEG
S. J. Bardwell
Affiliation:
University Marine Biological Station Millport, Isle of Cumbrae, Scotland, KA28 OEG
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Variations in dry body weight in the Stage V copepodite, associated with the development of the winter generation of Calanus finmarchicus (Gunnerus) in the Firth of Clyde each year were observed from 1978 to 1982, during early October and the middle of January.

The Stage V copepodite was dimorphic with respect to body size. Body weights of freeze-dried specimens were measured and form was distinguished using the prosome length. Allometric relationships of the dry weight to length in the two forms were similar, and stable between autumn and winter. From the mean of estimates for all collections, dry body weights of individual Stage V copepodites were proportional to the cube, approximately, of prosome lengths. Proportional coefficients were seasonally variable, but on all occasions these were greater for the large than the small form. Variations in dry weight were directly associated with the distinction between forms in body volume.

Collections from October and January encompassed the period between the end of maximal Copepodite V recruitment and the onset of adult recruitment to the winter generation. Over this period, however, the dry body weight in all years decreased relative to length in Copepodite Stage V. This decrease, on average, was by 17% and 23% in the large and small forms respectively. Monthly collections from one population were used to examine these patterns in relation to the development of gonads. Stage V copepodites of both forms were increasing in dry weight during October, but from November were losing weight continuously. Maturation in the majority of these individuals was restrained throughout autumn, abruptly accelerating in winter.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 69 , Issue 1 , February 1989 , pp. 101 - 122
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1989

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