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    ISSN: 1438-3888
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung 1. Seepocken (Balanus balanus L. undB. improvisus Darwin) reagieren auf plötzlichen Druckanstieg oder Druckabfall mit der Schalenschlußreaktion. Sie können Druckanstieg und Druckabfall als Reize mit verschiedenen Vorzeichen unterscheiden. 2. Auf schwache Druckreize reagieren Seepocken mit kurzer, auf starke Druckreize mit längerer Aktivitätspause. Diese Retraktionsdauer ist nicht identisch mit der für verschiedene Wassertiefen nötigen Adaptationsdauer. Sie wird mit steigender Temperatur des Seewassers verkürzt. 3. Bei gleichem Reizabstand erlischt die Reaktionsbereitschaft nach schwachen Druckreizen eher als nach starken. Die gehemmte Reaktionsbereitschaft beruht auf reizspezifischer zentraler Ermüdung.
    Notes: Abstract The mechanism of pressure perception in animals without gasfilled spaces is still obscure. Larvae of numerous species of marine invertebrates respond to pressure changes; but the nature and direction of this response, and its relationship to light, vary considerably in different species or in different developmental stages of the same species. Settlement and metamorphosis are critical events in the life cycles of marine invertebrates. Nevertheless, adults of the barnaclesBalanus balanus L. andB. improvisus Darwin respond to pressure changes as they did during their larval stages. However, the nature of these responses changes: from slow reactions of larvae (vertical migration and positioning) to rapid reactions of sessile adults (closure of shell valves). The interruption of activity is shorter if caused by a weak pressure stimulus, than by a strong pressure stimulus. It is not identical with the time span required to adapt to changes in water depth. Inactive periods decrease with rising water temperature. At a given stimulation frequency, reactivity is inhibited sooner by weak than by strong pressure stimuli. Inhibited reactivity is caused by stimulus-specific central nervous fatigue. Indirectly, three results indicate that specific pressure receptors exist: (a) metamorphosis of slow larval reactions to changes in hydrostatic pressure (probably caused by intracellular and extracellular physiological mechanisms, e. g. varying solubility of CaCO3) to rapid reactions of sessile adults; (b) ability for distinguishing increase and decrease in hydrostatic pressure as stimuli with different signs; (c) stimulus-specific central nervous fatigue.
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