The osmotic and ionic regulation of Branchinecta gaini Daday

• Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences
• Main Author: Ralph, R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Royal Society 1967
• Subjects: Biology and Microbiology; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Signy Island; Heywood; Goodman; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/526727/; https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1967.0022

The anostracan crustacean, Branchinecta gaini, has been recorded from freshwater lakes and pools in many places in the Antarctic and from the southern tip of South America. On Signy Island, in the South Orkneys group, the animal occurs in two rather different types of habitat. It is found in large,...