Resting Eggs in Pontella meadi (Copepoda: Calanoida)
- 1 March 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada
- Vol. 34 (3) , 410-412
- https://doi.org/10.1139/f77-065
Abstract
Pontella meadi Wheeler produces resting eggs in fall which hatch the following summer. Experiments show that these eggs require 4–8 wk of incubation at 2–3 or 5–6 °C for substantial hatching to occur. Eggs occur in sediment in winter. Resting eggs serve to repopulate temperate inshore areas with this species after its winter disappearance from the plankton. Key words: Copepoda, Calanoida, Pontella, resting eggs, incubation time, distributionThis publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Developmental Stages of Pontella meadi Wheeler (Copepoda: Calanoida)Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 1976