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Temperature influence on development and calcification of Herpetocypris brevicaudata Kaufmann, 1900 (Crustacea: Ostracoda) under experimental conditions

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Cultures of the freshwater ostracod Herpetocyprisbrevicaudata were kept under laboratory conditions in ordertostudy effects of water temperature on development time andcalcification process. Four culture temperatures were used:12.4,14.6, 19.8 and 23.3 °C.H. brevicaudata cultured at 19.8 and 23.3 °Cshowedhigher survival rate and faster development than thosecultured at12.4 and 14.6 °C. Water temperature also has a clearinfluence on the degree of calcification of the ostracodshells.For H. brevicaudata, the 15–19 °C temperaturerangeconstitutes a threshold below which Ca content of valvessignificantly decreases. Time required to calcify is alsolongerbelow this threshold. The increase of the calcification timedue tolower water temperatures seems to induce low survivalrates.

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  1. Unité de Paléontologie et de Paléogéographie, Université catholique de Louvain, 3-place Louis Pasteur, B-1348, Louvain-le-Neuve, Belgium

    Josep R. Roca & Guy Wansard

  2. Institute of Earth Sciences ’Jaume Almera‘, c/LLuis Solé i Sabaris, s/n 08028, Barcelona, Spain

    Josep R. Roca

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Roca, J.R., Wansard, G. Temperature influence on development and calcification of Herpetocypris brevicaudata Kaufmann, 1900 (Crustacea: Ostracoda) under experimental conditions. Hydrobiologia 347, 91–95 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003067218024

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