Respiration of the Atlantic Cod

1963 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard L. Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Size Effect ◽  
Atlantic Cod ◽  
Metabolic Cost ◽  
Unit Weight ◽  
Respiratory Volume ◽  
Ambient Oxygen ◽  
Consumption Rates ◽  
Rate Of Oxygen Consumption

Measurements of routine and standard rates of oxygen consumption of various sized cod at temperatures between 3 and 15 °C revealed a well-marked size effect; small cod consume oxygen at a greater rate per unit weight than do large ones. Increases in temperature raise oxygen consumption in starved and fed fish. The increase in rate of oxygen consumption of starved fish between 3 and 10° is proportionately greater than that between 10 and 15 °C. Feeding of cod which have previously been starved increases the rate of oxygen consumption by 40–90%. The rate subsides to the starvation level in 4–7 days depending on temperature and amount of food eaten. Handling cod causes them to increase their rate of oxygen consumption; rates return to normal levels in 3–5 hours. Crowding reduces the rate of oxygen consumption apparently by reducing the space for movement and thus restricting activity. Reducing the ambient oxygen from about 10 to 3 mg/l lowers the rate of oxygen consumption slightly, but the respiratory volume (volume of water pumped over the gills per unit time) is markedly increased. This suggests there is added stress because the increased metabolic cost of irrigating the gills is not met by increased rates of oxygen consumption.

The Relation of Oxygen Consumption to Body Size and to Temperature in the Larvae of Chironomus Riparius Meigen

1958 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 383-395
Author(s):  
R. W. EDWARDS
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Body Size ◽  
Dry Matter ◽  
Larval Instar ◽  
Weight Ratio ◽  
Dry Weight ◽  
Chironomus Riparius ◽  
Consumption Rates ◽  
Rate Of Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Wet Weight

1. The oxygen consumption rates of 3rd- and 4th-instar larvae of Chironomus riparius have been measured at 10 and 20° C. using a constant-volume respirometer. 2. The oxygen consumption is approximately proportional to the 0.7 power of the dry weight: it is not proportional to the estimated surface area. 3. This relationship between oxygen consumption and dry weight is the same at 10 and at 20° C.. 4. The rate of oxygen consumption at 20° C. is greater than at 10° C. by a factor of 2.6. 5. During growth the percentage of dry matter of 4th-instar larvae increases from 10 to 16 and the specific gravity from 1.030 to 1.043. 6. The change in the dry weight/wet weight ratio during the 4 larval instar supports the theory of heterauxesis. 7. At 20° C., ‘summer’ larvae respire faster than ‘winter’ larvae.

Some Factors Affecting the Oxygen Consumption of Asellus

1960 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 706-718
Author(s):  
R. W. EDWARDS ◽  
M. A. LEARNER
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Dissolved Oxygen ◽  
Constant Volume ◽  
Asellus Aquaticus ◽  
Dissolved Oxygen Concentration ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Consumption Rates ◽  
Rate Of Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Wet Weight ◽  
Males And Females

1. The oxygen-consumption rates of Asellus aquaticus (males and females) have been measured at 10 and 20° C. using a constant-volume respirometer, and the effect of starvation for 24 hr. investigated. The oxygen consumption is approximately proportional to the 0.7 power of the wet weight. The rate of oxygen consumption at 20° C. is greater than at 10° C. by a factor of 1.5. 2. The oxygen-consumption rates of A. aquaticus and A. meridianus have been measured at 20° C. in a flowing-water respirometer employing a polarographic technique for the measurement of dissolved-oxygen concentrations. The oxygen consumptions of A. aquaticus and A. meridianus are similar and decrease by 15-20% when the dissolved-oxygen concentration falls from 8.3 to 1.5 p.p.m. 3. The oxygen consumption of A. aquaticus is between 35 and 75% higher in the polarographic respirometer than in the constant-volume respirometer.

The influence of different oxygen regimes on metabolism and behavior of a soft shell clam Mya arenaria

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natascha Ouillon ◽  
Stefan Forster ◽  
Abigail Jarret ◽  
Eugene Sokolov ◽  
Inna Sokolova
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Mya Arenaria ◽  
Soft Shell Clam ◽  
Diurnal Cycles ◽  
Oxygen Regime ◽  
Ambient Oxygen ◽  
Soft Shell ◽  
Consumption Rates ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Photosynthesis And Respiration

<p>Hypoxia is widely distributed in coastal benthic habitats and is driven by warming, nutrient pollution and the diurnal cycles of photosynthesis and respiration. Benthic sessile species, such as the soft shell clam <em>Mya arenaria</em>, are commonly exposed to oxygen fluctuations in their habitats which might negatively impact the performance and metabolism of clams. To determine the effects of different oxygen regime on metabolism and behavior of <em>M. arenaria</em>, we exposed the clams for 21 days to chronic (constant) hypoxia at 20% of air saturation, fluctuating (cyclic) hypoxia (~10-50% of air saturation) and normoxia (100% of air saturation). To mimic conditions occurring in coastal hypoxic zones, CO2 and pH levels varied with the oxygen. We assessed the digging performance, bioirrigation capacity and bioenergetics of the clams. Acclimation to constant or cyclic hypoxia did not affect the oxygen consumption of the clams, but the oxygen consumption rates declined at low ambient oxygen concentrations regardless of the acclimation to different oxygen regimes. Clams acclimated to constant hypoxia mainly used lipids, whereas clams acclimated to cyclic hypoxia used carbohydrates as energy fuel. Clams acclimated to constant or cyclic hypoxia dug slower compared to the clams acclimated to normoxia. Furthermore, bioirrigation capacity decreased in clams acclimated to constant hypoxia. Our results indicate that constant and cyclic hypoxia impair bioturbation and bioirrigation capacity of clams which has implications for their ecological function as ecosystem engineers in benthic soft bottom habitats. </p>

The metabolic cost of birdsong production

2001 ◽  
Vol 204 (19) ◽  
pp. 3379-3388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerstin Oberweger ◽  
Franz Goller
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Sound Intensity ◽  
Metabolic Cost ◽  
Fold Increase ◽  
Zebra Finches ◽  
European Starlings ◽  
Temporal Complexity ◽  
Complex Song ◽  
Rate Of Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Song Production

SUMMARY The metabolic cost of birdsong production has not been studied in detail but is of importance in our understanding of how selective pressures shape song behavior. We measured rates of oxygen consumption during song in three songbird species, zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata), Waterslager canaries (Serinus canaria) and European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). These species sing songs with different acoustic and temporal characteristics: short stereotyped song (zebra finch), long song with high temporal complexity (canary) and long song with high acoustic, but low temporal, complexity (starling). In all three species, song slightly increased the rate of oxygen consumption over pre-song levels (1.02–1.36-fold). In zebra finches, the metabolic cost per song motif averaged 1.2 μl g–1. This cost per motif did not change over the range of song duration measured for the four individuals. Surprisingly, the metabolic cost of song production in the species with the temporally most complex song, the canary, was no greater than in the other two species. In starlings, a 16 dB increase in sound intensity was accompanied by a 1.16-fold increase in the rate of oxygen consumption. These data indicate that the metabolic cost of song production in the songbird species studied is no higher than that for other types of vocal behavior in various bird groups. Our analysis shows that the metabolic cost of singing is also similar to that of calling in frogs and of human speech production. However, difficulties with measurements on freely behaving birds in a small respirometry chamber limit the depth of analysis that is possible.

Cardiac output as a predictor of metabolic rate in cod gadus morhua

1998 ◽  
Vol 201 (19) ◽  
pp. 2779-2789 ◽  
Author(s):  
DM Webber ◽  
RG Boutilier ◽  
SR Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Cardiac Output ◽  
Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Metabolic Rate ◽  
Swimming Speed ◽  
Gadus Morhua ◽  
Atlantic Cod ◽  
Rate Of Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Free Ranging ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Fisheries Biology

Adult Atlantic cod (2 kg Gadus morhua) were fitted with Doppler ultrasonic flow-probes to measure ventral aortic outflow (i.e. cardiac output). The probes remained patent for upwards of 3 months, during which time detailed relationships between cardiac output (), heart rate (fh) and rate of oxygen consumption (O2) were determined as a function of swimming speed and temperature (5 degreesC and 10 degreesC). The rate of oxygen consumption increased linearly with and exponentially with swimming speed. A very good correlation was observed between O2 and (r2=0.86) compared with the correlation between O2 and fh (r2=0.50 for all 10 degreesC data and r2=0.86 for all 5 degreesC data). However, the O2 versus fh correlation gradually improved over approximately 1 week after surgery (r2=0.86). The relationship between O2 and was independent of temperature, while the relationship between O2 and fh changed with temperature. Hence, calculating O2 from is simpler and does not require that temperature be recorded simultaneously. Variations in cardiac output were determined more by changes in stroke volume (Vs) than by fh; therefore, fh was a less reliable predictor of metabolic rate than was . Given that can be used to estimate O2 so faithfully, the advent of a cardiac output telemeter would enable robust estimates to be made of the activity metabolism of free-ranging fish in nature, thereby strengthening one of the weakest links in the bioenergetic models of fisheries biology.

Metabolic expenditure of waleye (Stizostedion vitreum vitreum) as determined by rate of oxgen consumption

1981 ◽  
Vol 59 (6) ◽  
pp. 882-889 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin J. Tarby
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Unit Weight ◽  
Stizostedion Vitreum ◽  
Regression Equations ◽  
Feeding Experiments ◽  
Standard Metabolism ◽  
Heat Increment ◽  
Rate Of Oxygen Consumption ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Metabolic Expenditure

Energy expended by walleye (Stizostedion vitreum vitreum) for metabolism was assessed by measuring oxygen consumption of different size fish in respirometers under various conditions of temperature, activity, and ration. Standard metabolism was estimated as rate of oxygen consumption of unfed resting fish, and relationships to weight and temperature were expressed by simple and multiple regression equations. Although slopes for simple regressions did not differ significantly from slopes for analogous equations determined previously for walleye in maintenance feeding trials, the intercept or level of metabolism for a fish of unit weight at 20 °C computed from feeding experiments was over three times greater than that computed by respirometry. Heat increment, which was quantified from the difference in oxygen consumption of resting walleye fed and deprived of food at 20 °C, ranged from about 9 to 11% of the energy ingested and appeared independent of ration and fish size. Metabolism for swimming determined as the difference between rate of oxygen consumption of unfed fish resting and swimming one body length per second was calculated to be approximately equal to the energy expended by walleye for standard metabolism.

scholarly journals SWIMMING METABOLISM OF WILD-TYPE AND CLONED ZEBRAFISH BRACHYDANIO RERIO

1994 ◽  
Vol 194 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
I Plaut ◽  
M S Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Swimming Performance ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Metabolic Cost ◽  
Routine Activity ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Brachydanio Rerio ◽  
Consumption Rates ◽  
Homozygous Diploid

The availability of a gynogenetic isogenic homozygous diploid clonal strain (C) of the zebrafish (Brachydanio rerio), combined with the small adult body size of the species, made possible a study of the following two questions. (1) Is the genetic uniformity of a group of fish reflected in decreased variability of features of organismic performance physiology? (2) Is the metabolic cost of subcarangiform swimming significantly different in small fishes compared with large ones? Wild-type (WT) and C strain zebrafish maintained at 28 °C can all swim very rapidly [up to relative swimming speeds of 13 body lengths s-1 (BL s-1)] for extended periods (at least 2 h) without visibly tiring. Oxygen consumption rates were measured for both types at swimming speeds of 1.5­13 BL s-1. Whole-body lactate concentrations were also measured during routine activity and after prolonged exercise for both fish types. The slopes of the linear regressions between the logarithm of mass-specific oxygen consumption rates and relative swimming speeds for WT zebrafish were low (0.010­0.024) and were not significantly different from zero. Regression slopes were also low (0.009­0.026), but different from zero, for C zebrafish. Standard metabolic rates were 0.60­1.54 and 0.40­0.85 ml O2 g-1 h-1 for WT and C zebrafish respectively. Variances of slopes were significantly larger for WT than for C fish. Whole-body lactate concentrations and their variances were not significantly different between types and between rested and exercised fishes. The results demonstrate unusual swimming performance capacities, a remarkably low cost of swimming and some reductions in variability of C fish. Several possible explanations for the results are discussed.

Caudal differential pressure as a predictor of swimming speed of cod (Gadus morhua)

2001 ◽  
Vol 204 (20) ◽  
pp. 3561-3570
Author(s):  
D. M. Webber ◽  
R. G. Boutilier ◽  
S. R. Kerr ◽  
M. J. Smale
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Swimming Speed ◽  
Pressure Difference ◽  
Gadus Morhua ◽  
Atlantic Cod ◽  
Activity Patterns ◽  
Total Body Length ◽  
Differential Pressure ◽  
Rate Of Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Highly Correlated

SUMMARY We report the results of an experiment designed to investigate the feasibility of using differential pressure to estimate the swimming speed and metabolic rate of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua). Seven cod were fitted with a miniature differential pressure sensor mounted on one side of the caudal peduncle immediately anterior to the base of the caudal fin rays. Relationships between differential pressure, tailbeat frequency, tailbeat amplitude, swimming speed and rate of oxygen consumption (ṀO2) were determined as a function of the swimming speed of cod swimming at 5°C in a recirculating ‘Brett-style’ respirometer. Tailbeat differential pressure, tailbeat amplitude and tailbeat frequency were highly correlated with swimming speed. The average or integrated pressure ranged from 0 to 150 Pa for speeds up to 0.8 m s–1 (1.1 L s–1, where L is total body length), while the ‘pressure difference’ (maximum minus minimum pressure) ranged from 0 to 900 Pa. Small changes in swimming speed of less than 0.05 m s–1 were readily detected as differences in tailbeat pressure. Burst swimming in the respirometer resulted in huge pressure ‘bursts’ of up to 5000 Pa ‘pressure difference’. The rate of oxygen consumption increased exponentially and was highly correlated with swimming speed (r2=0.77). The rate of oxygen consumption was also correlated with tailbeat integrated pressure (r2=0.68) and with differential pressure (r2=0.43); regression correlations were always greater for individuals than for combined data from all cod. The results detailed in this study indicate that an ultrasonic differential pressure transmitter would enable accurate estimates of the swimming speed, rates of oxygen consumption and activity patterns of free-ranging fish in nature.

Respiratory Quotients in Goldfish and Rainbow Trout

1968 ◽  
Vol 25 (8) ◽  
pp. 1689-1728 ◽  
Author(s):  
Methil Narayan Kutty
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Steady State ◽  
Rainbow Trout ◽  
Metabolic Rate ◽  
Anaerobic Capacity ◽  
Low Oxygen ◽  
Ambient Oxygen ◽  
Rate Of Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Oxygen Concentrations

The respiratory quotients (R.Q.) of goldfish and rainbow trout were measured at 20 and 15 C respectively under spontaneous and forced activity. In goldfish spontaneously active and acclimated to air saturation the R.Q. was 1.02 in ambient oxygen above 50% air saturation and rose to 1.94 below 25% air saturation. Rainbow trout under similar conditions displayed respective R.Q.'s of 0.96 and 1.4. The latter R.Q. could be sustained only for a short time. In both species the metabolic rate dropped at oxygen concentrations below 50% air saturation but spontaneous activity remained high. Goldfish acclimated to 15% air saturation displayed the same R.Q. as unacclimated fish and thus did not display any increase in anaerobic capacity. When forced to swim steadily in water above 50% air saturation both species showed an initial anaerobic phase. This phase was less marked in the rainbow trout and was followed by an aerobic steady state except that at low swimming speeds the goldfish appeared to continuously derive some energy anaerobically. At oxygen concentrations below 50% air saturation the R.Q. of goldfish increased with decreasing concentration during steady swimming. At the single level of steady swimming effort at which comparisons were made, the R.Q. of goldfish did not change with acclimation to 15% air saturation but the rate of oxygen consumption fell to about 50% of the value before acclimation. The rainbow trout was not acclimated to low oxygen for any test.

scholarly journals Myocardial Oxygen Consumption and Lactate Release by the Hypoxic Hagfish Heart

1991 ◽  
Vol 156 (1) ◽  
pp. 583-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. E. FORSTER
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Myocardial Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Isolated Heart ◽  
Regression Line ◽  
Maximal Power Output ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Consumption Rates ◽  
Rate Of Oxygen Consumption

Myocardial oxygen consumption (MOO2)and lactic acid release were measured in the isolated heart of a hagfish (Eptatretus cirrhatus Forster) perfused in vitro. Two different ranges of partial pressures of oxygen were employed (PIOO2 3.87-5.87 and 1.60-2.67 kPa). All hearts released lactate into the perfusate, but the rate of release was greater and MOO2 was depressed at the lower PIOO2. When energy production through the glycolytic pathway to lactate is converted to oxygen equivalents and added to measured oxygen consumption rates, over a wide range of power outputs and different values of POO2, the data can be fitted to a single linear regression line. The rate of oxygen consumption of the hagfish myocardium, so obtained, is similar to values reported for teleost fish. The unusual ability of the hagfish myocardium to support perhaps up to 50 + of its maximal power output through anaerobic metabolism is related to its extremely low cardiac energy demand.

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