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Polychaetes provide an excellent food resource for fish and represent the dominant zoobenthos in marine ecosystems. Diel variation in the rates of metabolism and ammonia-N excretion of Marphysa sanguinea were studied. The worms were grouped according to their wet body weight into small (S; 1.24±0.06 g), medium (M; 4.00±0.30 g), and large (L; 8.54±1.08 g) categories. Their weight-specific metabolic rates, based on aerobic respiration (R), were measured at 16°C (±0.2°C) and classed as either routine (R R) or standard (R S) rates. Both respiration types decreased with increasing body weight. Respiration was described by R = a W b, where b was -0.400 9 and -0.532 0 for R R and R S, respectively. Diurnal changes in R S for each group was relatively flat, with a slightly increasing trend with time, but was relatively stable as a whole. R R of the diurnal variation of worms was higher than R S, but both had similar overall trends. The peak values of specific dynamic action (SDA) (R SDA) in the S, M, and L groups were 2.704, 1.149, and 0.682 mg/(g∙h), respectively. The durations of SDA were 13, 6, and 6 h, respectively and the energy expenditures of SDA were 377.98, 117.34, and 74.94 J/g, respectively. These data indicate that the metabolic rates were higher in smaller individuals, which is advantageous for their rapid growth.
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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30901107), the National Marine Public Welfare Research Project (Nos. 201305002, 201305043), and the Project of Marine Ecological Restoration Technology Research to the Penglai 19-3 Oil Spill Accident (No. 19-3YJ09)
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Yang, D., Chen, F., Zhou, Y. et al. Diel variation in metabolism and ammonia excretion of Marphysa sanguinea (Polychaeta: Eunicidae). Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 34, 1209–1217 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-016-4340-x
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