physiological responses of daphnia pulex to acid stress水蚤pulex酸压力的生理反应.pdf

BMC Physiology BioMed Central Research article Open Access Physiological responses of Daphnia pulex to acid stress Anna K Weber and Ralph Pirow* Address: Institute of Zoophysiology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany Email: Anna K Weber - akweber@gmx.de; Ralph Pirow* - pirow@uni-muenster.de * Corresponding author Published: 21 April 2009 Received: 29 February 2008 Accepted: 21 April 2009 BMC Physiology 2009, 9:9 doi:10.1186/1472-6793-9-9 This article is available from: /1472-6793/9/9 © 2009 Weber and Pirow; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Acidity exerts a determining influence on the composition and diversity of freshwater faunas. While the physiological implications of freshwater acidification have been intensively studied in teleost fish and crayfish, much less is known about the acid-stress physiology of ecologically important groups such as cladoceran zooplankton. This study analyzed the extracellular acid-base state and CO2 partial pressure (PCO2), circulation and ventilation, as well as the respiration rate of Daphnia pulex acclimated to acidic (pH 5.5 and 6.0) and circumneutral (pH 7.8) conditions