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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Influence of environmental oxygen on development and hatching of aquatic eggs of the Australian frog, Crinia georgiana |
Author: | Seymour, R. Roberts, J. Mitchell, N. Blaylock, A. |
Citation: | Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 2000; 73(4):501-507 |
Publisher: | Univ Chicago Press |
Issue Date: | 2000 |
ISSN: | 1522-2152 1537-5293 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Seymour, Roger S; Roberts, J. Dale; Mitchell, Nicola J; Blaylock, Amy J |
Abstract: | The effect of oxygen partial pressure (Po(2)) on development and hatching was investigated in aquatic embryos of the myobatrachid frog, Crinia georgiana, in the field and in the laboratory. Eggs from 29 field nests experienced widely variable Po(2) but similar temperatures. Mean Po(2) in different nests ranged between 2.9 and 19.3 kPa (grand mean 12.9 kPa), and mean temperature ranged between 11.9 degrees and 16.8 degrees C (grand mean 13.7 degrees C). There was no detectable effect of Po(2) or temperature on development rate or hatching time in the field, except in one nest at 2.9 kPa where the embryos died, presumably in association with hypoxia. Laboratory eggs were incubated at 15 degrees C at a range of Po(2) between 2 and 25 kPa. Between 5 and 25 kPa, there was almost no effect of Po(2) on development rate to stage 26, but the embryos hatched progressively earlier-at earlier stages and lower gut-free body mass-at lower Po(2). At 2 kPa, development was severely delayed, growth of the embryo slowed, and morphological anomalies appeared. A high tolerance to low Po(2) may be an adaptation to embryonic development in the potentially hypoxic, aquatic environment. |
Keywords: | Ovum Animals Bufonidae Oxygen Environment Partial Pressure |
DOI: | 10.1086/317739 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/317739 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 2 Ecology, Evolution and Landscape Science publications |
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