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Differentiated influence of quality of seston (Content of C, N, P, and polyunsaturated fatty acids) on rate of somatic and generative growth of Daphnia

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The data set obtained in 19 experiments aimed at studying the growth of Daphnia of the longispina group on natural seston of the Bugach water reservoir (Krasnoyarsk) was used to analyze the relationship between the parameters of somatic and generative growth of the studied animals and the amount and quality of food. Depending on the quality of the seston, two models of the development of Daphnia were proposed. It was demonstrated that, despite the existing positive correlation between somatic and generative growth, a noticeable fraction of the variations of the specific rate of generative production is determined by external factors of the environment, such as the relative content of N and α-linolenic acid (N: C and ALA: C) in seston.

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  1. Institute of Biophysics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Akademgorodok, Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia

    A. P. Tolomeev, O. P. Dubovskaya, N. N. Sushchik, O. N. Makhutova & G. S. Kalacheva

  2. Siberian Federal University, pr. Svobodnyi 79, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia

    O. P. Dubovskaya & N. N. Sushchik

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Original Russian Text © A.P. Tolomeev, O.P. Dubovskaya, N.N. Sushchik, O.N. Makhutova, G.S. Kalacheva, 2012, published in Sibirskii Ekologicheskii Zhurnal, 2012, No. 4, pp. 607–618.

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Tolomeev, A.P., Dubovskaya, O.P., Sushchik, N.N. et al. Differentiated influence of quality of seston (Content of C, N, P, and polyunsaturated fatty acids) on rate of somatic and generative growth of Daphnia . Contemp. Probl. Ecol. 5, 450–458 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425512040130

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