Photosynthetic activity of the solar-powered lagoon mollusc Elysia timida (Risso, 1818) (Opisthobranchia: Sacoglossa)
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Título: | Photosynthetic activity of the solar-powered lagoon mollusc Elysia timida (Risso, 1818) (Opisthobranchia: Sacoglossa) |
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Autor/es: | Gimenez-Casalduero, Francisca | Muniain, Claudia |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Biología Marina |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ciencias del Mar y Biología Aplicada | Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" |
Palabras clave: | Elysia timida | Sacoglossa | Kleptoplasts | Photosynthesis |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Zoología | Ecología |
Fecha de publicación: | 19-jul-2006 |
Editor: | Balaban Publishers |
Cita bibliográfica: | GIMÉNEZ CASALDUERO, Francisca; MUNIAIN, Claudia. "Photosynthetic activity of the solar-powered lagoon mollusc Elysia timida (Risso, 1818) (Opisthobranchia: Sacoglossa)". Symbiosis. Vol. 41 (2006). ISSN 0334-5114, pp. 151-158 |
Resumen: | The sacoglossan Elysia timida (Risso, 1818) is typical of shallow sea areas and coastal lagoons. It retains symbiotic functional chloroplasts derived from its algal food Acetabularia acetabulum (Linnaeus) for 45 days. However, some aspects of the photosynthetic behaviour of the mollusc-chloroplast association are unknown. This work studies the photosynthetic characteristics of E. timida from a lagoon environment (Mar Menor), defined between 25 and 600 µmol quanta m–2 s–1 by the photosynthetic-irradiance curve. Experimental data were fitted to different exponential models and models based on Michaelis-Menten kinetics. Among the latter, the model that bests fits to the experimental data was identified. Furthermore, it incorporates respiration values and allows an estimation of compensation irradiance (Ic: 11.89 µmol quanta m–2 s–1). This model showed a rapid saturation of the photosynthetic apparatus at relatively low irradiance values (Ik: 31.33 µmol quanta m–2). Excess light seems to be modulated by the mollusc's opening and closing of their parapodia. Mean P/R values (Production versus Respiration relationship) are above 0.91; considered high in coralzooxanthellae symbioses. The photosynthetic efficiency of the symbiotic chloroplasts is fairly high, taking into account that sacoglossans are more active than corals and have a higher respiration rate. |
Patrocinador/es: | This research was supported by the research grant PN92 (Spanish National Programme of Researcher Training, Education and Science) to F.G.C., research grant INV05 from the Conselleria de Investigació (Generalitat Valenciana) in the University of Alicante and CONICET (PIP 5301) to C.M. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/4324 |
ISSN: | 0334-5114 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Revisión científica: | si |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - BM - Artículos Científicos / Scientific Papers |
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