.... Individuals were experimentally exposed to temperatures (27.5, 31 and 35.5°C) in adult and two critical early life stages (larval and settlement) to assess acquired heat tolerance via outcrossing of offspring phenotypes by comparing five physiological responses (photosynthetic yields, bleaching, necrosis...

... experiments, and together with J.N. performed biological experiments in the early stages of the research. COMPETING INTERESTS No competing interests declared. 3 12 2012 28 3 2013 © 2013. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2013 larvae Bugula neritina settlement...

...Di Jiang; Jason W. Tresser; Takeo Horie; Motoyuki Tsuda; William C. Smith SUMMARY Free-living animals and their larvae utilize light and gravity as cues to navigate in open space. Detection and response to these environmental stimuli are important for the dispersal and settlement of ascidian larvae...

...E. Hunter; Keiju Okano; Y. Tomono; N. Fusetani ABSTRACT The effects of extended swimming on short-lived lecithotrophic larvae of the marine bryozoan Bugula neritina (L.) were examined. Larvae were forced to swim for 2 or 24 h by bath application of serotonin. Settlement and metamorphosis success...

... settlement and mud crab abdominal pumping (for larval dispersal) are stimulated by small peptide cues. In all the peptides examined that were active at ecologically relevant concentrations, arginine or lysine was found at the carboxy terminus, but the amino acids found at preceding positions were highly...

.... * e-mail: LDF03550@niftyserve.or.jp . 5 6 1996 ©The Company of Biologists Limited 1996 barnacle cyprid Megabalanus rosa settlement cement exocytosis secretion dopamine noradrenaline catecholamine The life cycle of the barnacle is split into two distinct...

...Anthony S. Clare; Ronald F. Thomas; Daniel Rittschof ABSTRACT The involvement of cyclic AMP in the settlement of the cypris larva of Balanus amphitrite amphitrite Darwin has been examined through the use of compounds that affect intracellular cyclic AMP levels. The activation of adenylate cyclase...