Respiration

John Spicer*

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Abstract

The term ‘respiration’ means different things to different investigators. For some, it encompasses all of an organism’s energy use, while for others it simply refers to the sum of the processes by which oxygen (O2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) are transferred between the environment and the tissues (Burggren & Roberts, 1991). Our understanding of respiration by invertebrates (in both senses) is underdeveloped compared with vertebrates. However, compared with other invertebrate groups, respiration is relatively well studied in the Crustacea, or at least in some, mainly larger-bodied, malacostracan crustacean species. Consequently, a number of excellent crustacean-specific works (e.g., Wolvekamp & Waterman, 1960; Huggins & Munday, 1968; Vernberg, 1983; Cameron & Mangum, 1983; McMahon & Wilkins, 1983; Forest and von Vaupel Klein, 2005; Jimenez & Kinsey, 2015) and general reviews of respiration that incorporate crustacean material (e.g., Steen, 1971; Mill, 1972; Prosser, 1991) have been published over the last 60 years.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFrontiers in Invertebrate Physiology
Subtitle of host publicationA Collection of Reviews: Volume 2: Crustacea
PublisherApple Academic Press
Pages1-54
Number of pages54
Volume2
ISBN (Electronic)9781000900088
ISBN (Print)9781774914021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2024

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Keywords

  • aerobic metabolism
  • altered mass exponent
  • environmental drivers
  • hypoxia
  • larval metabolic intensity
  • respiratory pigments
  • ventilation

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