Published in Russian Journal of Marine Biology
This paper analyzes different methods for assessment of the production of marine organisms. The estimated values of annual production and ration of planktonic copepods of the White Sea are 5.0 × 1012 and 2.2 × 1013 kcal, respectively. Comparison of the planktonic copepod ration with phytoplankton production shows that the energy demands of the cope...
Published in Russian Journal of Marine Biology
A number of embryological features of the Pogonophora suggest that they could not derive from the Polychaeta and are closely related to Deuterostomia. These are: (1) traces of spiral cleavage that sharply differ the from cleavage of polychaetes in the prospective value of blastomeres; (2) enterocoelic formation of mesoderm; (3) the larva most close...
Published in Russian Journal of Marine Biology
Some bottom biocenoses in the river mouth area of Anadyr Estuary are studied. Seasonal biocenosis of filamentous algae Acrosiphonia spp. occurs in the intertidal zone, biocenosis of the bivalve Macoma balthica is common at a depth of 4–8 m. Species diversity increases with depth. The distribution of biocenoses and population structure depend on the...
Published in Russian Journal of Marine Biology
The larval morphology of the gastropod Cryptonatica janthostoma inhabiting the Northwest Pacific was described for the first time. Hatched planktotrophic veligers of C. janthostoma had shells 250 μm in height with 0.8 whorls, a bilobate velum with a dark brown pigmentation band shaped along its edge, pair of eye spots, tentacles and statocysts. The...
Published in Russian Journal of Marine Biology
Algae of Peter the Great Bay (Sea of Japan) were for the first time bioassayed as a source of lectins. From 28 algal species of three orders, only some extracts from brown (Phaeophyta) and red (Rhodophyta) seaweeds were found to cause agglutination of human erythrocytes. The hemagglutinating activity of extracts from three species of brown algae an...
Published in Russian Journal of Marine Biology
The taxonomical composition of dead birds found on the northeastern coast of Sakhalin Island and the causes of their death were studied. Sites with high, average, and low concentration of dead birds were identified. The period of highest mortality of birds (July–August) coincided with the beginning of massive migrations of birds and large numbers o...
Published in Russian Journal of Marine Biology
Published in Russian Journal of Marine Biology
The cannibalistic behavior during all life history stages of the red king crab Paralithodes camtschaticus (Tilesius, 1815) raised under laboratory conditions was studied. All feeding stages were found to be cannibalistic. The major factors affecting the level of cannibalism were identified, and methods were proposed to reduce cannibalism intensity ...
Published in Russian Journal of Marine Biology
Localization and morphological peculiarities of cateholamine-containing (CA-C), serotonin-(5HTIR), neurotensin-(NT-IR) and FMRFamide-immunoreactive (FMRFa-Ir) cells and processes in the body wall and lateral nervous trunks of nemerteans were investigated. The following nemertean species from three orders occurring in the White Sea were studied by f...
Published in Russian Journal of Marine Biology
The patterns of pigment distribution in the shell of the gastropod Littorina obtusata were studied. It was determined that the background coloration of the periwinkle shell resulted from the coloration interaction of the external and internal parts of the ostracum. The coloration of the latter can be monochromatic or twolayer. The external and/or i...
