Effect of food deprivation in late larval development and early benthic life of temperate marine coastal and estuarine caridean shrimp

Starvation resistance in juvenile freshwater crayfish

“…All these properties vary greatly among phylogenetic groups, developmental stages, reproductive periods, and adult habitats (Sulkin & McKeen 1999, Giménez & Anger 2005, Calado et al 2010. A particularly strong starvation resistance has been observed in larval decapods developing in freshwater, at high latitudes, or in other highly variable habitats, where food availability may be unpredictable or on average poor (e.g.…”

“…E-cell (embryonic), R-cell (resorptive), F-cell (fibrillar), and B-cell (blisterlike) (Al-Mohanna & Nott 1986Franceschini-Vicentini et al 2009, Icely & Nott 1992. Hence, the capability of a decapod to survive transitory lack of food and to subsequently recover from such periods depends on adaptive physiological and behavioral traits and, especially, on its capacity to store energy in the hepatopancreas.All these properties vary greatly among phylogenetic groups, developmental stages, reproductive periods, and adult habitats (Sulkin & McKeen 1999, Giménez & Anger 2005, Calado et al 2010. A particularly strong starvation resistance has been observed in larval decapods developing in freshwater, at high latitudes, or in other highly variable habitats, where food availability may be unpredictable or on average poor (e.g.…”

Starvation of Artemia in larval rearing water affects post-larval survival and morphology of the swimming crab, Portunus trituberculatus (Brachyura, Portunidae)

“…Facultative secondary lecithotrophy during the MG stage has also been reported in the brachyuran crab, Mithraculus forceps (Figueiredo et al, 2008). As the decapodid stage is a transition from the planktonic to the benthic stage, higher starvation tolerance may be a strategy to overcome the food deprivation encountered and explore suitable settlement (Abrunhosa et al, 2008;Anger, 1989Anger, , 2001bCalado et al, 2010;Figueiredo et al, 2008). Although the MG of P. trituberculatus have the ability to eat, which contributed to increase C1 somatic size in the rotifer-fed groups in experiment 1, they also exhibit more swimming (locomotion) ability and planktonic and benthic behaviour (Hamasaki, 1997;Yatsuzuka and Sakai, 1982), indicating that MG is a period to explore for settlement.…”

“…Nutritional and energetic reserves that have been assimilated during the zoeal stage in these species are carried over during the period from decapodid to the next juvenile stage (Anger, 1989(Anger, , 2001b. Calado et al (2010) investigated starvation tolerance during the last zoeal, decapodid, and juvenile stages in four species of caridean shrimp and demonstrated that the decapodid stage exhibit higher starvation tolerance compared with that of the last zoeal and juvenile stages even in species that exhibit feeding behaviour during the decapodid stage (called facultative secondary lecithotrophy). Facultative secondary lecithotrophy during the MG stage has also been reported in the brachyuran crab, Mithraculus forceps (Figueiredo et al, 2008).…”

“…The effects of starvation in the absence of live food have also been studied extensively in terms of their ecological adaptation to the natural habitat (Anger, 1987;Dawirs, 1981, 1982;Calado et al, 2010;Figueiredo et al, 2008;Giménez and Anger, 2005;Giménez et al, 2004;Guerao et al, 2012). However, little attention has been paid to the nutritional status (including starvation) of live food after being supplied to larval rearing water and its effects on larval survival, development, and morphogenesis.…”