Interpopulational differences in the nutritional condition of Aequiyoldia eightsii (Protobranchia: Nuculanidae) from the Western Antarctic Peninsula during austral summer

• Published in: PeerJ
• Main Authors: Bascur, Miguel, Morley, Simon A., Meredith, Michael, Muñoz Ramírez, Carlos P., Barnes, David K. A., Schloss, Irene Ruth, Sands, Chester J., Schofield, Oscar, Román Gonzaléz, Alejandro, Cárdenas, Leyla, Venables, Hugh, Brante, Antonio, Urzúa, Ángel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PeerJ
• Subjects: BIVALVE; FATTY ACID; INFAUNAL; INVERTEBRATE; PHYSIOLOGY; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Argentina; Austral; Meredith; Morley; Muñoz; Rothera; Rothera Research Station; Yelcho; Antarc*; British Antarctic Survey; Tierra del Fuego
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/150675

The Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) is a hotspot for environmental change and has a strong environmental gradient from North to South. Here, for the first time we used adult individuals of the bivalve Aequiyoldia eightsii to evaluate large-scale spatial variation in the biochemical composition (me...