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JPR Advance Access published online on February 16, 2004
Journal of Plankton Research, doi:10.1093/plankt/fbh040
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Received October 9, 2003;
accepted January 14, 2004

Article

Host Location by Larvae of a Parasitic Barnacle: Larval Chemotaxis and Plume Tracking in Flow

Zohar Pasternak 1*, Bernd Blasius 2*, and Avigdor Abelson 3*

1 Institute for Nature Conservation Research, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel, Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Bar-Ilan 52900, Israel
2 Institute of Physics, Potsdam University, Am Neuen Palais 10, D-14469 Germany
3 Institute for Nature Conservation Research, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: avigdor{at}post.tau.ac.il.


  Abstract

Numerous studies describe stimulation and/or enhancement of larval settlement by distance chemoreception in response to chemical factors emitted by conspecific adults, host and prey species and microbial films. However, active upstream tracking of odor plumes, needed in order to locate specific, spatially limited settlement sites, has thus far received little scientific attention. This study examines host location in flow and still water by larvae of the parasitic barnacle Heterosaccus dollfusi, which inhabits the brachyuran crab Charybdis longicollis. Experiments included analysis of larval motion patterns under four conditions: still water, in flow, in still water with waterborne host metabolites and in flow with host metabolites. Our results show that H. dollfusi larvae are capable of actively and effectively locating their host in still water and in flow, using chemotaxis and rheotaxis and modifying their swimming pattern, direction, velocity, determination and turning rate to accommodate efficient navigation in changing environmental conditions.


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