Effect of different temperatures and abrupt change on oxygen consumption rate of Ruditapes philipppinarum
Jiang Hongbo
Song Zhongtao
Bao Jie
Yu Yehui
Abstract：The oxygen consumption rate of R. philipppinarum was studied under different tempera-tures and abrupt change in laboratory by means of ecological methods. 5 constant temperatures (15 ℃, 20 ℃, 25 ℃, 30 ℃ and 35 ℃) and 4 abrupt changes(changing from 25 ℃ to 15 ℃, 20 ℃, 30 ℃ and 35 ℃, respectively) were set. The results showed that temperature had significant ef-fects on the oxygen consumption, the oxygen consumption increased with the increase of water tem-perature from 15 ℃ to 30 ℃ and reached to the maximum at 30 ℃. However, when the water tempera-ture was higher than 30 ℃, oxygen consumption rate of R. philipppinarum decreased. As a whole, the highest and the lowest of oxygen consumption rate appeared at 30 ℃ and 15 ℃, respectively. The differences among 15 ℃, 20 ℃, 35 ℃ were not significant(P>0.05), and among 25 ℃, 30 ℃, 35 ℃ were not significant(P>0.05), however, the oxygen consumption rate of 25 ℃ and 30 ℃ were significantly higher than 15℃ and 20 ℃(P<0.05). The oxygen consumption rates of R. philipppina-rum after temperature change were all higher than the same constant temperatures, suggesting that more energy would be used when subjected to abrupt temperature change.
Keywords：Ruditapes philipppinarumtemperatureabrupt changeoxygen consumption rate
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 5-8 )