...Imants G. Priede; Rhoderick W. Burgass; Manolis Mandalakis; Apostolos Spyros; Petros Gikas; Finlay Burns; Jim Drewery ABSTRACT Whereas upper ocean pelagic sharks are negatively buoyant and must swim continuously to generate lift from their fins, deep-sea sharks float or swim slowly buoyed up...

... © 2012. 2012 bioluminescence deep-sea benthic vision bathyal benthopelagic emission spectra Although bioluminescence is relatively rare in terrestrial habitats and nearly absent in freshwater, it is abundant in the ocean, particularly in the mesopelagic realm, where it is thought...

...Tamara M. Frank; Sönke Johnsen; Thomas W. Cronin SUMMARY Using new collecting techniques with the Johnson-Sea-Link submersible, eight species of deep-sea benthic crustaceans were collected with intact visual systems. Their spectral sensitivities and temporal resolutions were determined shipboard...

.... ( 1995 ). Are there physiological and biochemical adaptations of metabolism in deep-sea animals? Trends Ecol. Evol. 10 , 30 -36. Childress, J. J. and Seibel, B. A. ( 1998 ). Life at stable low oxygen levels: adaptations to oceanic oxygen minimum layers. J. Exp. Biol. 201 , 1223 -1232...

... metamorphosis locomotion flight deep-sea Cephalopoda Vampyromorpha Vampyroteuthis infernalis Cirrata Opisthoteuthis californiana Cirrothauma murrayi Coleoidea Vampyroteuthis infernalis Chun, 1903 is a bathypelagic cephalopod which inhabits the oxygen minimum layer (600–800 m...

...N. Justin Marshall; Carol Diebel ABSTRACT Deep-sea isopods of the family Munnopsidae exhibit four modes of swimming: forward striding, slow backward pedalling, fast backward pedalling and escape, the first two of which use asymmetric phases of leg movement. Instead of moving the left and right...

...N. K. Sanders; J. J. Childress ABSTRACT The effects of temperature and pH on haemocyanin oxygen-binding were compared for three species of diurnally vertically migrating and two species of non-migrating, pelagic oplophorid shrimps from the deep sea off the Hawaiian island of Oahu. The effects of L...

... of spontaneous movements: large slow rotations of up to 50° around a transverse axis, and a superimposed 2 Hz tremor with an amplitude of 5 °. 08 09 1989 © 1990 by Company of Biologists 1990 eye eye-movement ostracod deep-sea Clear ocean water attenuates blue light by a factor...