Time Course of Salinity Adaptation 



Temperature Influence on Osmotic and Chloride 

 Regulation 



Temperature Influence on the Steady-State Levels 



Salinity and Temperature Requirements in Relation 

 to Size 



Osmoregulation and Energy Relations 



Metabolic Compensation to Temperature Change . . 



Regulation of Other Cations 



V: SUMMARY 



VI: EPILOGUE 



VII: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



VIII: LITERATURE CITED 



APPENDIX A: Definition of Terms 



Acclimation 



Brackish water 



Estuaries 



Euryhaline 



Hyperosmotic 



Hyposmotic 



Ionic regulation 



Isosmotic 



Metabolic rates 



Nongenetic adaptations 



Osmoregulators 



Osmotic concentration 



Salinity 



Serum 



Standard metabolism 



Weight specific metabolic rate 



APPENDIX B: Tables 



I-IX. Mean blood osmotic concentration 



jl^ S. E 



X-XVIII. Mean blood chloride concentration 



+ S. E 



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