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Effects of food and light on naupliar swimming behavior of Apocyclops royi and Pseudodiaptomus annandalei (Crustacea, Copepoda)

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We examined the effects of food and light on the swimming behavior of nauplii of the cyclopoid Apocyclops royi (Lindberg, 1940) (Copepoda: Cyclopoida) and the calanoid Pseudodiaptomus annandalei Sewell, 1919 (Copepoda: Calanoida). Several behavioral parameters such as swimming patterns, speed, and trajectories exhibited distinct ontogenetic differences between the two species. When algae Isochrysis galbana (Haptophyta: Isochrysidales) were offered as food to the nauplii of A. royi, they showed fast circle swimming behavior, while nauplii of P. annandalei never exhibited such behavior, neither with, nor without algae. The different behavioral patterns between the nauplii of both species suggest they both have different foraging strategies in detecting and capturing food.

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We acknowledge the financial support from the National Science Council, Taiwan, NSC (Grant NSC 97-2621-B-019-004), (Grant NSC 98-2311-B-019-002-MY3), (Grant NSC 98-2621-B-019-001-MY3), and the Center of Excellence for Marine Bioenvironment and Biotechnology of the National Taiwan Ocean University. This research was partially supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2010-A001-0057).

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  2. Biotechnology Division, Fisheries Research Institute, Tong-gang, Taiwan

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  3. Green Life Science Department, College of Natural Science, Sangmyung University, 7 Hongij-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 110-743, South Korea

    H.-U. Dahms

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Wu, CH., Dahms, HU., Cheng, SH. et al. Effects of food and light on naupliar swimming behavior of Apocyclops royi and Pseudodiaptomus annandalei (Crustacea, Copepoda). Hydrobiologia 666, 167–178 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-011-0631-6

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