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Main Title Adaptability of Metabolism in North Caspian Mussels (Genus Dreissena) to Variation in Salinity Regime (Prisposoblennost Obmena Dreissen Severnogo Kaspiya k Izmeneniyu Solevogo Rezhima).
Author Karpevich., A. F. ;
CORP Author Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, N.C. Translation Services Section.
Year Published 1947
Report Number EPA-TR-75-108;
Stock Number PB-261 556-T
Additional Subjects Salinity ; Mussels ; Aquatic animals ; Metabolism ; Adaptation ; Physiological effects ; Mollusca ; USSR ; Translations ; Tables(Data) ; Dreissena
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NTIS  PB-261 556-T Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation 15p
Abstract
When the salinity was gradually changed, the respiration was retained in all groups in the interval from 0 to 17 parts per thousand (temperature 18-20C). However, in salinities above 10 parts per thousand, the organisms gradually die (the cause of their death is the disturbance of the osmoregulatory processes). The method of physiological adaptations that was applied made it possible, on the one hand, to determine the optimal and lethal salinity metabolism zones for each ecological group of organisms living in confined natural salinity conditions, and, on the other hand, made it possible to determine their 'potential resistance.' The potential metabolism resistance for all Dreissena that were studied turned out to be the same. This indicates the close affinity of various groups of Dreissena. Hence, the potential resistance is a characteristic feature of the species or even the genus.