Carbohydrate metabolism of two crustaceans during starvation

✍ Scribed by K. Parvathy

• Book ID: 104734212
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1971
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 480 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0025-3162
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00349338

✦ Synopsis

In Emerita asiatica and Ligia exotica, starvation for t week steadily depleted the free sugar values, indicating their involvement in nutritive physiology, l~'otein-bound blood sugars showed no change during starvation, indicating their non-involvement in general carbohydrate metabolism; it is suggested that they may be involved in the moulting physiology related to the synthesis of structural components such as chitin. The extent of glycogen storage is found to be greater in the anomuran E. asiatica than in the isopod L. exotica. In the latter, the fall in free sugar values during starvation is greater, due to meagre storage of glycogen in the hepatopancreas. These features are related to habitat and availability of food in the environment.