Effect of body mass, temperature and food deprivation on oxygen consumption rate of common cuttlefish Sepia officinalis
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ORIGINAL PAPER
EVect of body mass, temperature and food deprivation on oxygen consumption rate of common cuttleWsh Sepia oYcinalis Panagiotis Grigoriou · Christopher Allan Richardson
Received: 22 October 2008 / Accepted: 25 July 2009 / Published online: 20 August 2009 © Springer-Verlag 2009
Abstract Predictions of short and long term changes in Sepia oYcinalis metabolism are useful, since this species is both economically important for aquaculture and also is an ideal experimental laboratory organism. In this study standard and routine oxygen consumption rates of newly hatched and juvenile laboratory raised cuttleWsh S. oYcinalis ranging between 0.04 and 18.48 g dry body mass (Dm), were measured over a range of temperatures (10, 15, 20 and 25°C). The mass exponent (b) ranged between 0.706 and 0.992 for standard oxygen consumption and between 0.694 and 0.990 for routine oxygen consumption. Oxygen consumption scaled allometrically (b = 0.7) with body mass for cuttleWsh
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