RESPIRATORY RESPONSES IN A BRAZILIAN MILLIPEDE, PSEUDONANNOLENE-TRICOLOR, TO DECLINING OXYGEN PRESSURES
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1991-01-01
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Univ Chicago Press
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Oxygen uptake and the influence of declining oxygen pressures (Po2's) were examined in a Brazilian spirostreptid millipede, Pseudonannolene tricolor. The data were obtained in a Warburg respirometer at 25-degrees-C from both male and female animals, sexually inactive, in the intermolt stage, and fasting for 24 h. In a sudden exposure to a decreased Po2 the millipedes regulated respiration down to at least 71 mmHg O2. From a Po2 of 35 mmHg O2 downward the animals started to show oxyconformity. When the millipedes were exposed to a stepwise declining Po2 the results indicated only conformation. After exposure to hypoxia, P. tricolor showed a pattern of underrepayment on return to normoxia, but larger millipedes accumulated more O2 debt than smaller ones.
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Physiological Zoology. Chicago: Univ Chicago Press, v. 64, n. 1, p. 232-241, 1991.