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Nucleic acid proxies for ingestion rate, growth and reproduction in copepod Pseudodiaptomus annandalei
Received date: 2017-05-12
Request revised date: 2017-06-26
Online published: 2018-04-11
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National Natural Science Foundation of China (41276153, 41176087)
Joint Project of National Nature Science Foundation of China-Guangdong (U1301235)
Open Fund Project of Key Laboratory of Sustainable Utilization of Marine Biological Resources of Chinese Academy of Sciences (LMB111008)
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Nucleic acid indices can indicate nutrition status and growth of copepods; yet, lack of comparison among different phylogenetic groups and indices constrains application of nucleic acid proxies in field investigation. In this study, ingestion rate, growth rate of copepodid at Stage Ⅱ and egg production rate were studied in brackish copepod Pseudodiaptomus annandalei at different food levels (0.2~2.0 μg C·mL-1). Biochemical indices including mass specific RNA content, DNA content, RNA:DNA, and RNA: protein ratios, as well as elemental composition (mass specific phosphorus content, nitrogen content, atomic C:P, and C:N ratios ), were also measured and described. Ingestion rate, growth rate, egg production rate, and RNA-related indices in copepodids increased with increasing food level hyperbolically, so did RNA:DNA ratio in female adults. Ingestion and growth rates were significantly correlated with RNA-related indices in copepodids in a linear manner and the strength of correlation ranked as RNA:DNA>RNA:PRO>RNA content. Egg production rate, however, was correlated with RNA:DNA and RNA:PRO ratios in female adults with high and moderate significance, respectively. Our results suggested that RNA:PRO ratio is suitable to be an indicator of growth and reproduction rate in copepod besides RNA:DNA ratio and RNA content, which have been applied in field investigation. However, RNA:DNA as proxy of somatic growth should be confined to the same-aged copepod. In addition, the finding of hyperbolic correlation between RNA-related indices and food concentration implied that they may help prediction of food environment for copepod, but may be confined to food levels at unsaturated phase of functional responses of variables.
Key words: nucleic acid indicators; copepod; ingestion; somatic growth; reproduction
HE Xuejia , YANG Huaming , LYU Baidong , YIN Jianqiang . Nucleic acid proxies for ingestion rate, growth and reproduction in copepod Pseudodiaptomus annandalei[J]. Journal of Tropical Oceanography, 2018 , 37(2) : 26 -35 . DOI: 10.11978/2017053
Fig. 1 Physiological variables of P. annandalei in response to food concentration图1 不同饵料浓度条件下安氏伪镖水蚤桡足Ⅱ期个体及雌性成体的生长代谢指标 |
Fig. 2 Biochemical variables of P. annandalei at copedite Stage Ⅱ in reponse to food concentration图2 不同饵料浓度条件下安氏伪镖水蚤桡足Ⅱ期个体的生化组分 |
Fig. 3 Biochemical variables of female P. annandalei in response to food concentration图3 不同饵料浓度条件下安氏伪镖水蚤桡足雌性成体的生化组分 |
Tab. 1 Analysis of functional responses of physiological variables, biochemical and elemental compositions to food concentration in P. annandalei using a hyperbolic equation表1 安氏伪镖水蚤的生理参数、生化及元素组成对饵料浓度的响应的双曲线模型[y=ymax(1-e-b(f+c))]回归分析 |
生长阶段 | 指标 | ymax | b | c | r | p |
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桡足幼体 | 摄食率 | 0.053±0.006 | 2.04±0.62 | 0 | 0.95 | 0.012 |
生长率 | 0.16±0.0053 | 3.3±0.34 | 0 | 0.99 | 0.001 | |
RNA:干重 | 0.083±0.0019 | 8.1±0.85 | 0 | 0.97 | 0.0054 | |
RNA:PRO | 0.14±0.0008 | 11±0.37 | 0 | 0.99 | <0.001 | |
RNA:DNA | 15±3.3 | 0.56±0.38 | 1.1±0.56 | 0.96 | <0.01 | |
雌性成体 | 产卵率 | 6.8±0.34 | 2.6±0.38 | 0 | 0.99 | <0.01 |
RNA:DNA | 15±0.26 | 2.6±0.82 | 0.56±0.20 | 0.97 | <0.001 | |
C:P | 434±15 | 7.7±1.2 | 0 | 0.95 | 0.015 |
Fig. 4 Elemental composition of P. annandalei at copepodite StageⅡin response to food concentration图4 不同饵料浓度条件下安氏伪镖水蚤桡足Ⅱ期幼体的元素组成 |
Fig. 5 Elemental composition of female P. annandalei in response to food concentration图5 不同饵料浓度条件下安氏伪镖水蚤雌性成体的元素组成 |
Tab. 2 Analysis of correlations between physiological parameters (ingestion rate, growth rate, and egg production rate) and nucleic acid indices as well as elemental compositions in P. annandalei at different food levels表2 安氏伪镖水蚤蚤体生理指标(摄食率、生长率和产卵率)与核酸指标及元素组成的相关性分析 |
生长阶段 | 生理指标 | 核酸指标和元素组成 | Pearson分析 | y=ax+b | ||
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p | r | a | b | |||
桡足Ⅱ期 | 摄食率 | RNA︰干重 | 0.018* | 0.725 | 0.454 | 0.065 |
RNA︰DNA | 0.000** | 0.953 | 114.8 | 6.956 | ||
RNA︰PRO | 0.003** | 0.836 | 3.815 | -0.029 | ||
P含量/% | 0.509 | 0.237 | -0.443 | 0.320 | ||
N含量/% | 0.797 | 0.093 | 1.05 | 3.957 | ||
C:P | 0.510 | 0.237 | 155.1 | 103.5 | ||
C:N | 0.857 | 0.066 | -1.461 | 8.327 | ||
桡足Ⅱ期 | 生长率 | RNA︰干重 | 0.005** | 0.688 | 0.165 | 0.074 |
RNA︰DNA | 0.000** | 0.814 | 39.60 | 4.942 | ||
RNA︰PRO | 0.004** | 0.702 | 1.118 | -0.064 | ||
P含量/% | 0.419 | 0.225 | 0.158 | 0.281 | ||
N含量/% | 0.307 | 0.238 | 1.212 | 3.812 | ||
C:P | 0.503 | 0.187 | -48.443 | 116.13 | ||
C:N | 0.528 | 0.178 | -1.515 | 8.514 | ||
雌性成体 | 产卵率 | RNA︰干重 | 0.076 | 0.636 | 0.039 | -0.001 |
RNA︰DNA | 0.000** | 0.851 | 0.511 | 11.71 | ||
RNA︰PRO | 0.027* | 0.565 | 3.815 | -0.029 | ||
P含量/% | 0.000** | 0.891 | -0.019 | 0.303 | ||
N含量/% | 0.193 | 0.356 | 0.244 | 2.593 | ||
C:P | 0.000** | 0.889 | 12.29 | 88.81 | ||
C:N | 0.132 | 0.408 | -0.395 | 11.79 |
注: 回归分析中, y为核酸指标或化学计量学特征值, x为生理参数; *指显著, **指极显著 |
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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