Sensory Reception in Crustacean Zooplankton

甲壳类浮游动物的感觉接收

• 批准号: 8917167
• 负责人: Jeannette Yen
• 金额: $ 13万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Stony Brook
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-05-01 至 1993-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8917167&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Sensory; Reception; Crustacean; Zooplankton

The goal of this research is to characterize the mechanosensors on the first antenna of calanoid copepods and evaluate their importance for prey and predator detection. Behavioral and morphological analyses have indicated that mechanoreception may be critical to pelagic copepods for prey detection, predator avoidance and mate recognition. Yet mechanoreception in copepods has not been studied physiologically. Dr. Yen and collaborators at the University of Hawaii will combine expertise in copepod ecology and crustacean neurophysiology to investigate the sensory capabilities of copepods physiologically, and to integrate the sensory physiology with data on their ecology. The basic objectives of this project are: 1. To characterize the physiological responses to quantified mechanical stimuli. 2. To relate the physiological data to the external and internal morphology of the sensors. 3. To determine intraspecific differences in physiological properties and relate these to differences in species ecology. 4. To measure behavioral responses to mechanical stimuli and relate these to the physiological properties and the species ecology.

这项研究的目的是表征钙粘蛋白copepods的第一个天线上的机械传感器，并评估其对猎物和捕食者检测的重要性。 行为和形态学分析表明，机械感受可能对pelagic copepods对于猎物检测，回避捕食者的避免和伴侣识别至关重要。 然而，copepods中的机械感受尚未在生理上进行研究。 Yen博士和夏威夷大学的合作者将结合Copepod生态学和甲壳类神经生理学方面的专业知识，以研究Copepods的感觉能力，并将感觉生理与其生态学的数据相结合。 该项目的基本目标是：1。表征对定量机械刺激的生理反应。 2。将生理数据与传感器的外部和内部形态联系起来。 3。确定生理特性的种内差异，并将其与物种生态学的差异联系起来。 4。衡量对机械刺激的行为反应，并将其与生理特性和物种生态学联系起来。