...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...

... condition with a suitable trawl net than it is to catch benthic species in similar condition via a dredge, especially one dragged over complex terrain. There are several reasons to suspect that bioluminescence in the deep-sea benthos may differ from that found in the mesopelagic realm. First...

...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...

... 10 2006 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2007 2007 metabolic scaling citrate synthase metabolic theory deep-sea The inverse relationship between mass-specific metabolism and body mass,most famously illustrated by the `mouse to elephant curve' for mammals covering six orders...

... infernalis appears functionally to be an ontogenetic ‘gait-transition’. metabolism scaling metamorphosis locomotion flight deep-sea Cephalopoda Vampyromorpha Vampyroteuthis infernalis Cirrata Opisthoteuthis californiana Cirrothauma murrayi Coleoidea The highest activities of both...

...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 °. © 1990 by Company of Biologists 1990 eye eye-movement ostracod deep-sea Clear ocean water attenuates blue light by a factor of 10 for every 70 m...