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Journal of Experimental Biology, Vol 203, Issue 2 415-422, Copyright © 2000 by Company of Biologists

JOURNAL ARTICLES

The influence of salinity and temperature change on the functioning of the urinary bladder in the early larval stages of the atlantic herring Clupea harengus L

P Tytler and J Ireland
Department of Biological and Molecular Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK. PT1@stir.ac.uk

Major changes in the morphology of the urinary bladder were observed during the transition from yolk-sac to feeding larval stages of herring, in particular bladder volume increased almost sixfold. Initially, the urine flowed into the hindgut, but within days of hatching a separate urinary duct, leading to the exterior, had formed. Micturation was intermittent but quite regular. The period between micturations increased from 1.6 to 4 min in the progression between the two larval stages. The discharge volume was approximately 50 % of the full bladder volume in all stages studied. Urine flow rate (UFR) in sea water rose slightly from 1 to 1.7 nl mg(-)(1 )h(-)(1) during early larval development. Exposure to low salinities significantly reduced UFR in yolk-sac larvae, but in the later stages UFR increased significantly in hypo-osmotic salinities, so that UFR in 4 salinity was 2.5 times that in 34 salinity. The main variable influencing UFR was discharge frequency. Cardiac output was not influenced by salinity and was considered not to be a controlling factor in the UFR response to salinity change. UFR increased with temperature with Q(10) of 2.3 in stage 1 larvae and 1. 5 in stage 2 larvae, over 7-15 degrees C.
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