Direct observation of swimming behaviour in a shallow-water scavenging amphipod Scopelocheirus onagawae in relation to chemoreceptive foraging |
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Authors: | Keiichiro Ide Kazutaka Takahashi |
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Affiliation: | a Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute, 3-27-5 Shinhama-cho, Shiogama, Miyagi 985-0001, Japan b Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, 1-1 Amamiya, Aoba, Sendai, Miyagi 980-0001, Japan |
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Abstract: | Direct observations on foraging behaviour of scavenging lysianassid amphipods have been limited, and no previous study has examined the effect of food odour quantitatively on the behaviour. The present study recorded the swimming behaviour of the amphipod Scopelocheirus onagawae using videographic techniques before and after the introduction of food odour (amino acid solution). S. onagawae showed consistent nocturnal activity swimming at a high speed (16.8 cm s− 1) with an approximately straight trajectory in various directions before and after the introduction of odour in which the amino acid concentration was below the behavioural threshold concentration for this species (1.0 × 10− 7 mol l− 1). High speed multidirectional linear swimming is thought to be advantageous for these amphipods, enabling them to survey across a broad area. After the first encounter with the odour plume above the behavioural threshold concentration, the amphipods slowed down their swimming speed (ca. 9.7 cm s− 1) with a short time-lag (ca. 0.42 s), and thereafter they frequently turned so that they remained within the odour plume. Once moved out of the odour plume, the amphipods quickly returned to the plume with a shorter response time (ca. 0.1 s) than that in the first detection of the odour plume, suggesting that the sensory adaptation is involved with the tracking of the odour. Our study demonstrated that chemoreception is a major factor causing behavioural change in scavenging amphipods at the edge of the odour plume. |
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Keywords: | 2D analysis Amino acids Scavenging lysianassid amphipod Scopelocheirus onagawae Swimming speed |
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