Published in Marine Biology
Sardine larvae are forced to grow as fast as possible to reduce larval mortality. Thus, changes in biochemical composition during the first steps of sardine larval growth are intended to maximize larval growth rate efficiency and survival. Protein and RNA weight-specific growth rates were the highest and their corresponding doubling times the short...
Published in Oceanology
Published in Marine Biology
Phylogenetic analyses have demonstrated that nonfeeding larvae have evolved from feeding larvae many times among marine invertebrates. In light of this observation, it is surprising that an intermediate strategy, a larva that can feed but is provisioned with enough energy to metamorphose without acquiring exogenous food (i.e., facultative planktotr...
Published in Water Resources
The concentrations and the elemental and biochemical composition of dissolved and particulate organic matter (OM) characteristic of southern and Arctic seas are presented. The rate of OM transformation in the production–decomposition cycle and that of the phosphate cycle are estimated from the activity of the redox enzymes of the electron-transport...
Published in Russian Journal of Marine Biology
In this paper, data are presented on the distribution of dissolved and particulate carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids (NAs) in the waters of the Kuril Islands on both the Sea of Okhotsk and Pacific Ocean sides. By analyzing discrepancies in the absolute and relative concentrations of these substances, it is revealed that the waters ...
