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The structure and function of fish and crustacean photoreceptors

Entry ID: K022_1978_1979_NZ_1

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Summary

Abstract: Electroretinograms and intracellular recordings were conducted on the giant Antarctic isopod Glyptonotus as well as the common amphipod Orchomene plebs. Eye material from starfish, marine mites, isopods and amphipods, and dragonfish were analysed by gas chromatography to confirm the distribution of fatty acids in the eyes of surface and bottom creatures. Observations were made on peculiar minute hairs which cover the entire body of Glyptonotus and are only visible under high magnification. Ectoparasitic copepods and a blind and possibly primitive crustacean were collected from the underside of Antarctic starfish.

Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: -77.9

S: -77.9

E: 166.75

W: 166.75

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1978-11-12

Stop Date: 1979-01-08

Location Keywords

OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN

CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > ROSS SEA

Science Keywords

BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > FISH

BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS > CRUSTACEANS > COPEPODS

ISO Topic Category

BIOTA

Platform

LABORATORY

Quality Most of the specimens were fixed, cut, examined under the light and/or transmission electron microscope and therefore no longer available. A few collected specimens are with the investigator at Jacobs University. In addition, lots of photographs (electron micrographs of eyes and other tissues of Antarctic fishes and crustaceans) are in his collection and a few until now uncut blocs of embedded tissue samples are also still available.

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Originating Center

Data Center

Antarctica New Zealand, New Zealand Antarctic Institute, New Zealand

Data Center URL: http://www.antarcticanz.govt.nz/

Data Center Personnel
Name: SHULAMIT GORDON Phone: +64 3 358 0200 Fax: +64 3 358 0211 Email: s.gordon at antarcticanz.govt.nz Contact Address: Antarctica New Zealand Private Bag 4745 City: Christchurch Country: New Zealand

Personnel

VICTOR BENNO MEYER-ROCHOW

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Phone: +49 421 200 3242

Fax: +49 421 2000 4333

Email: b.meyer-rochow at jacobs-university.de

Contact Address:

Jacobs University

Faculty of Engineering and Sciences

PO BOX 750561

D-28725

City: Bremen

Country: Germany

CEISHA POIROT

Role: DIF AUTHOR

Phone: +64 3 358 0200

Fax: +64 3 358 0211

Email: c.poirot at antarcticanz.govt.nz

Contact Address:

Antarctica New Zealand

Private Bag 4745

City: Christchurch

Country: New Zealand

SHULAMIT GORDON

Role: DIF AUTHOR

Phone: +64 3 358 0200

Fax: +64 3 358 0211

Email: s.gordon at antarcticanz.govt.nz

Contact Address:

Antarctica New Zealand

Private Bag 4745

City: Christchurch

Country: New Zealand

Publications/References

Meyer - Rochow, V.B. 1978. Auf Entdeckengsreise im ewigen Eis - ein Biologe erkundet die Antarktis. Selecta 20: 3691-3694

Meyer - Rochow, V.B., Thompson, K. 1979. Leben unter extremen Bedingungen - Antarktische Algen in Asche, Scnee und 4000m Hohe. Mikrokosmos 68: 21-22

Meyer-Rochow, V.B. 1979. A rapidly self-regenerating photosensitive system in the eyes of Antarctic ... crustaceans living under the sea ice - an hypothesis. NZ Antarctic Record 1: 3-8.

Meyer-Rochow, V.B. A rapidly self-regenerating photosensitive system in the eyes of Antarctic crustaceans living under the sea ice: a hypothesis. New Zealand Antarctic record 1(3): 3-8, 1978.

Meyer-Rochow, V.B. Tiang, K. The effects of light and temperature on the structural organisation of the eye of the Antarctic amphipod Orchomene plebs (Crustacea).Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B206: 353-368, 1979.

Meyer-Rochow, V.B. Cuticular surface structures in Glyptonotus antarcticus - a marine isopod from the Ross Sea (Antarctica). Zoomorphologie 94(2): 209-216, 1980.

Meyer-Rochow, V.B. Eye colour and spectral sensitivity in the Antarctic amphipod Orchomeme plebs. New Zealand Antarctic record 3(1): 25-28, 1980.

Meyer-Rochow, V.B. Pyle, C.A. Fatty acid analysis of lens and retina of two Antarctic fish and of the head and body of the Antarctic amphipod Orchomene plebs. Comparative biochemistry and physiology 65B: 395-398, 1980.

Meyer-Rochow, V.B. Glyptonotus antarcticus Eights, 1852 var. obtusus - a new variety of the giant Antarctic isopod. Crustaceana 38(1): 93-96, 1980.

Meyer-Rochow, V.B. The eye of Orchomene sp. cf. O. rossi, an amphipod living under the Ross Ice Shelf (Antarctica). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B212: 93-111, 1981.

Meyer-Rochow, V.B. Fish tongues - surface fine structure and ecological considerations.Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 71: 413-426, 1981.

Meyer-Rochow, V.B. Tiang, K.M. Comparison between temperature-induced changes and effects caused by dark/light adaptation in the eyes of two species of Antarctic crustaceans. Cell and tissue research 221(3): 625-632, 1982.

Meyer-Rochow, V.B. The divided eye of the isopod Gluptonotus antarcticus: effects of unilateral dark adaptation and temperature elevation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B215: 433-450, 1982.

Meyer-Rochow, V.B. Marine life in Antarctica. Hemisphere 27: 48-52, 1982.

Meyer-Rochow, V.B. Retinal organisation of the eyes of three nototheniid fishes from the Ross Sea (Antarctica). Gegenbaurs morphologisches jahrbuch 128: 762-777, 1982.

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2005-09-22

Last DIF Revision Date: 2009-02-13

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