《Effect of Dissolved Oxygen on Swimming Ability and Physiological Response to Swimming Fatigue of Whiteleg Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei》.pdfVIP

J. Ocean Univ. China (Oceanic and Coastal Sea Research) DOI 10.1007/s11802-014-1974-1 ISSN 1672-5182, 2014 13 (1): 132-140 /xbywb/ E-mail:xbywb@ Effect of Dissolved Oxygen on Swimming Ability and Physiological Response to Swimming Fatigue of Whiteleg Shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) DUAN Yan1), 2), ZHANG Xiumei1), *, LIU Xuxu1), and Dhanrajsingh N. Thakur1) 1) The Key Laboratory of Mariculture of Chinese Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, P. R. China 2) Liaoning Open Laboratory of Applied Marine Biotechnology , Liaoning Ocean and Fisheries Science Research Institute, Dalian 116023, P. R. China (Received March 28, 2012; revised April 13, 2012; accepted May 18, 2013) © Ocean University of China, Science Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 Abstract The swimming endurance of whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei, 87.66 mm ± 0.25 mm, 7.73 g ± 0.06 g) was exam- ined at various concentrations of dissolved oxygen (DO, 1.9, 3.8, 6.8 and 13.6 mg L−1) in a swimming channel against one of the five flow velocities (v , v , v , v and v ). Metabolite contents in the plasma, hepatopancreas and pleopods muscle of the shrimp were 1 2 3 4 5 quantified before and after swimming fatigue. The results revealed that the swimming speed and DO concentration were significant factors that affected the swimming endurance of L. vannamei . The relationship between swimming endurance and swimming speed at various DO concentrations can be described by the power model (ν·tb = a). The relationship between DO concentration (mg L−1) 9000 and the swimming ability index (SAI), defined as SAI 0.137 2 = ∫ 0 vdt (cm) , can be described as SAI = 27.947 DO (R = 0.9312). The level of