spacer gif spacer gif spacer gif spacer gif spacer gif
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


spacer gif
     Home     Help     Feedback     Subscriptions     Archive     Search     Table of Contents    

This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Drobne, D.
Right arrow Articles by Fajgelj, A.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Drobne, D.
Right arrow Articles by Fajgelj, A.

Journal of Experimental Biology, Vol 178, Issue 1 275-279, Copyright © 1993 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

USE OF Tc-99m-PERTECHNETATE TO FOLLOW LIQUID WATER UPTAKE BY PORCELLIO SCABER

D. Drobne and A. Fajgelj

Terrestrial isopods are, apart from the amphipods, the only group of crustaceans living on land. They have evolved some functional and anatomical adaptations to manage water and ion exchange between themselves and their environment, and these are different from those in all other crustaceans. In higher terrestrial isopods, liquid water is taken in by mouth (Hoese, 1981) and water vapour is absorbed in the pleoventral space (Wright and Machin, 1990; Wright and O'Donnell, 1992). Spencer and Edney (1954) also showed that water from wet filter paper can be taken up by the animals' rear appendages (uropods).


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Biol. Bull.Home page
H. Horiguchi, M. Hironaka, V. B. Meyer-Rochow, and T. Hariyama
Water Uptake via Two Pairs of Specialized Legs in Ligia exotica (Crustacea, Isopoda)
Biol. Bull., October 1, 2007; 213(2): 196 - 203.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]


© The Company of Biologists Ltd 1993