Effect of salinity on osmoregulatory patch epithelia in gills of the blue crab Callinectes sapidus.(biological research) From: The Biological Bulletin | Date: April 1, 2006| Author: Cannon, A.C.; Colella, T.; Evangelisto, A.; Lee, D.H.; Lovett, D.L.; Muller, E.M.; Towle, D.W. | COPYRIGHT 2006 Marine Biological Laboratory. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In euryhaline crabs, ion-transporting cells are clustered into osmoregulatory patches on the lamellae of the posterior gills. To examine changes in the branchial osmoregulatory patch in the blue crab Callinectes sapidus in response to change in salinity and to correlate these changes with other osmoregulatory responses, crabs were acclimated to a range of salinities between 10 and 35 ppt. When crabs that had been acclimated to 35 ppt were subsequently transferred to 10 ppt, both the size of...