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Laboratory entrainaient of the rhythmic swimming activity of Corophium volutator (Pallas) to cycles of temperature and periodic inundation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2009

Walter F. Holmström  and
Elfed Morgan
Walter F. Holmström
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology and Comparative Physiology, University of Birmingham, P.O. Box 363, Birmingham, B15 2TT
Elfed Morgan
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology and Comparative Physiology, University of Birmingham, P.O. Box 363, Birmingham, B15 2TT
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Abstract

The tidal rhythm of swimming activity shown by the estuarine amphipod Corophium volutator can be entrained to cycles of temperature and immersion in the laboratory. The rhythm is phased to the period of increasing temperature, or to the time at which the animals are wetted by the artificial tide, and the activity maxima follow the Zeitgeber with a phase delay of about 5–6 h in each case. Entrainment to these variables alone is inadequate to account for ebb tide swimming in the natural state, and it is likely that the rhythm is normally entrained by a number of factors of variable significance.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 63 , Issue 4 , November 1983 , pp. 861 - 870
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1983

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