BIOL 1107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sea Salt, Rotifer, Brachionus Plicatilis

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 1107
• Professor: Dolan

Document Summary

Brine shrimp and their life: an annotated bibliography. "effect of temperature and viscosity on swimming velocity of the copepod. Acartia tonsa, brine shrimp artemia salina and rotifer brachionus plicatilis. " Many zoo planktonic aquatic organisms use beating cilia for swimming but planktonic organisms like brine shrimp use muscle-powered swimming appendages to swim. Half the decline in swimming velocity was because of mechanical effects of increased viscosity and the rest was because of physiological effects. Planktonic organisms accelerate their swimming velocity in response to a predator depends on the organisms" ability to increase the swim- power of the muscular swimming appendages. This article was a useful source for the research because it demonstrates with evidence that planktonic organisms such as brine shrimp are capable of using supplementary energy in response to predators or food sources. This will be crucial to our question of how viscosity affects the bring shrimp because the article states that as viscosity increases swimming velocity should increase.