There is an increasing body of evidence to support the significant role of invertebrates in
assessing impacts of environmental contaminants on marine ecosystems. Therefore, in …

Osmoregulation is by no means an energetically cheap process, and its costs have been
extensively quantified in terms of respiration and aerobic metabolism. Common products of …

Freezing, dehydration, salinity variations, hypoxia or anoxia are some of the environmental
constraints that many organisms must frequently endure. Organisms adapted to these …

The wide distribution of crustaceans from freshwater through brackish into marine waters
and from salt marshes to terrestrial zones shows the exceptional capacities of this animal …

Many types of zooplankton contain large proportions of lipids. Usually, these lipids represent
energy storage compounds, but it has also been suggested that lipids play a role in …

Bivalve mollusks that inhabit low-depth coastal and estuarine areas frequently experience
osmotic stress that may be also associated with alterations of antioxidant enzyme activities …

Acartia tonsa and Oithona davisae are typically near-shore species which were transferred
to the Black Sea with ship ballast water and established self-sustaining populations in …

Tigriopus brevicornis is the dominant member of the fauna in high-shore rockpools (above
the mean high water of spring tides) that are subject to extreme environmental variation …

Mortality, respiration rate, and body mass density of the estuarine copepods Calanipeda
aquaedulcis and Arctodiaptomus salinus and their eggs were studied over a wide range of …

Thraustochytrid protists characteristically accumulate high amounts of lipids, much of which
is comprised of the polyunsaturated fatty acid, docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). Since DHA is …