✦ LIBER ✦
Behavioral thermoregulation by Ammocoete larvae of the sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) in an electronic shuttlebox
✍ Scribed by William W. Reynolds; Martha E. Casterlin
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 184 KB
- Volume
- 61
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1573-5141
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✦ Synopsis
Ammocoete larvae of the sea lamprey Petromyzon marinus, a member of the primitive vertebrate class Agnatha, were tested for thermoregulatory behavior in an electronic shuttlebox (ichthyotron) . The final preferendum derived from pooled data for 24 individually tested ammocoetes was characterized by a mean of 13 .6 ± 0.17 (s .e .m.)°C, a mode and median of 14 .0°C, and a range of voluntarily occupied temperatures from 1o-19°C over a 3-day period .