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Oellermann 2014 Thesis

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Oellermann M (2014) Blue Blood on Ice: cephalopod haemocyanin function and evolution in a latitudinal cline. Doctoral Thesis 1-213.

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Oellermann M (2015) Doctoral Thesis

Abstract: The Antarctic Ocean hosts a rich and diverse fauna despite inhospitable temperatures close to freezing, which require specialist adaptations to sustain animal activity and various underlying body functions. While oxygen transport plays a key role in setting thermal tolerance in warmer climates, this constraint is relaxed in Antarctic fishes and crustaceans, due to high levels of dissolved oxygen. Less is known about how other Antarctic ectotherms cope with temperatures near zero, particularly the more active invertebrates like the abundant octopods. A continued reliance on the highly specialised blood oxygen transport system of cephalopods may concur with functional constraints at cold temperatures. We therefore analysed the octopodโ€™s central oxygen transport component, the blue blood pigment haemocyanin, to unravel strategies that sustain oxygen supply and thus survival at cold temperatures.


โ€ข O2k-Network Lab: DE Bremerhaven Mark FC


Labels: MiParea: Respiration, Comparative MiP;environmental MiP 

Stress:Temperature  Organism: Molluscs 




HRR: Oxygraph-2k