QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced] Author: Keyword(s):
Home     Help     Feedback     Subscriptions     Archive     Search     Table of Contents

This Article Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by PARRY, G. Search for Related Content PubMed Articles by PARRY, G.

Journal of Experimental Biology 32,408-422 (1955)
Published by Company of Biologists 1955

Urine Production by the Antennal Glands of Palaemonetes Varians (Leach)

GWYNETH PARRY ¹

¹ Zoological Laboratory, University of Cambridge

1. Four methods for estimating the rate of urine flow in Palaemonetes varians are described.

2. The rate is minimal when the external medium is approximately isotonic with the blood. All methods indicate that the rate increases progressively with increasing dilution of the external medium below 50% sea water. There is some evidence to suggest that the rate increases in hypertonic external media.

3. These results are discussed in relation to estimates of the urine production in some other Crustacea and in relation to the ecology of the genus Palaemonetes.

Note:

Now at the Zoology Department, Bedford College, University of London.