Effects of Low Salinities on Oxygen Consumption of Selected Euryhaline and Stenohaline Freshwater Fish |
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| Authors: | Ilhan Altinok John M Grizzle |
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| Institution: | Southeastern Cooperative Fish Disease Project, Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849 USA |
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| Abstract: | The amount of energy required for osmoregulation depends on the difference between internal and external concentrations of ions (Rao 1968; Farmer and Beamish 1969), changes in corticosteroid hormone levels (Morgan and Iwama 1996), glomerular filtration rates (Furspan et al. 1984), gill and kidney Na+, K+-ATPase activity (McCormick et al. 1989; Morgan and Iwama 1998), tissue permeability to water and ions, and gill ventilation, perfusion, and functional surface area (Rankin and Bolis 1984). Differences in the energetic cost of osmoregulation play a significant role in the difference in growth rate between seawater-and freshwater-adapted fish (Morgan and Iwama 1991; Ron et al. 1995; Wang et al. 1997). Oxygen consumption is an indirect indicator of metabolic rate in fish (Cech 1990) and can be used to determine effects of salinity changes on energy costs. |
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