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The euryhaline crab Uca tangeri showed metabolic differences to sex and environmental salinity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 July 2017

Silvina A. Pinoni ,
Ismael Jerez-Cepa ,
Alejandra A. López Mañanes  and
Juan Miguel Mancera Romero
Silvina A. Pinoni
Affiliation:
Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)-Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Mar del Plata, Argentina
Ismael Jerez-Cepa
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Ambientales, Universidad de Cádiz, Puerto Real, Spain
Alejandra A. López Mañanes*
Affiliation:
Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)-Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Mar del Plata, Argentina
Juan Miguel Mancera Romero
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar y Ambientales, Universidad de Cádiz, Puerto Real, Spain
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: A.A. López Mañanes, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)-Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Mar del Plata, Argentina email: mananes@mdp.edu.ar
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Abstract

This study constitutes a first attempt to investigate sex differences in osmoregulatory capacity and metabolic responses in relation to hyper- and hypo-osmoregulation in the intertidal euryhaline crab Uca tangeri. Adult male and female specimens from Cadiz Bay, Spain (36°23′–37′N 6°8′–15′W), were acclimated to three different environmental salinities (12, 33 and 55 psu) during 7 days, and several parameters were assessed in haemolymph (osmolality, glucose, amino acids, triglycerides and lactate) as well as in metabolic key organs (hepatopancreas, anterior and posterior gills: glycogen, free glucose, amino acids and triglycerides). Specimens from both sex exhibited high and similar hyper- and hypo-osmoregulatory capacities. However, metabolite levels were differentially affected upon acclimation to low and high salinity in several metabolic organs and haemolymph of male and females: (i) glycogen in gills, (ii) free glucose in gills and hepatopancreas, (iii) amino acids in hepatopancreas, (iv) triglycerides in haemolymph, hepatopancreas and posterior gills, and (v) lactate in haemolymph. The results suggest the occurrence of differential metabolic adjustments upon hyper- and hypo-osmoregulation related to sex in the intertidal euryhaline crab U. tangeri.

Keywords

euryhaline crabUca tangerisalinityhepatopancreasgillshaemolymph
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 98 , Issue 6 , September 2018 , pp. 1465 - 1475
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2017 

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These authors have contributed equally to this work.

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Senior authors have contributed equally to this work.

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