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1 Estuaries fresh & salt meet
Tremendously Productive DETRITUS

2 Origin and Types Drowned river valleys or coastal plain estuaries
Bar-built estuary Tectonic estuary Fjords

3 Drowned or Coastal Plain
18K yr last ice age Chesapeake Bay, Delware and St Lawrence, Thames

4 Bar-built Estuary Sand bars and barrier islands
Barrier between ocean and river’s freshwater Texas coast, N. Carolina coast, N. Sea coast

5 Tetonic Estuaries Land subsided from crust’s movements
San Francisco Bay

6 Fjords Cut by retreating glaciers Steep wall
Alaska, Norway, Chile, New Zealand

7 Physical Characteristics
Salinity: 35 ppt vs ~0 ppt Salt Wedge: bull sharks Tides offer wide fluctuations Substrate Sand to mud Mud rich in organic matter, anoxia Temperature Daily and seasonal Suspended sediments Feeding apparatus

8 Types of Communities Open water: anadromous and catadromous
Mud flats: infauna, meiofauna Salt marshes: cord grass Oyster reefs Sea grass beds Mangrove forest

9 The body Diversity Adaptations
Talking Points The body Diversity Adaptations

10 Body Plans Provide Diversity
A Question of Adaptation Often – Consumer and Consumed Co-Evolve Driver of Speciation – Exploitation of New Energy Resources Topics on the diversity of fishes Anatomy Skin – keeps the body intact, etc. Jaws –respiration and feeding Appendages – locomotion and buoyancy Cardiovascular system Respiratory system

11 Energy Budgets IF I = E Growth = 0 I < E Growth =
Intake ( I = Income) Macronutrients Carbohydrates Fats/Oils Proteins Micronutrients Vitamins Essential Fatty Acids Amino Acids Sugars Energy Use (E = Expenditure) Respiration Osmoregulation Movement Feeding Digestion Reproduction IF I = E Growth = 0 I < E Growth = I > E Growth = +

12 Keystone System Circulatory sytem

13 Plausible Scenarios Ancestor chordates evolved in an isotonic setting
All were marine since the start No osmotic gradients No energy required for osmoregulation Body surface was highly permeable Some ion regulation Kidneys were exclusively for excretion When early vertebrates invaded freshwater Osmotic disruption resulting in excess water Absorption through thin epithelium Water intake from feeding Need to solve this problem along with ion balance

14 Osmosis is the tendency of water to move between two solutions of different osmolarity separated by a barrier permeable for water (e.g. membrane).

15 Living organisms an aqueous solution with solutes contained within a series of membrane system volume [solutes] maintained within a narrow limits for the optimal function deviations from physiological composition: incompatible with life maintain the proper concentrations of body fluid which invariably differ from the environment unlike cell walls of plants, the animal cellular plasma membrane is not equipped to deal with high pressure differences or large volume changes

16 Where are the regulated areas?
Intracellular osmoregulation is the active regulation that guarantees the absence of pressure gradients across plasma membranes, aka cell volume regulation Extracellular osmoregulation is the active, homeostatic regulation that maintains the osmotic concentrations in the body fluids, even if the environmental osmotic concentration changed. Mainly water and NaCl are maintained

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18 Osmoregulation: ability to hold constant total electrolyte and water content of the cells. Critical for survival and success

19 Concepts of osmorality
Osmotic concentration of a solution can be expressed as osmorality (osmoles per liter) Concentration of a dissolved substance is expressed in units of molarity (number of moles per liter solution)

20 Osmorality of a nonelectrolyte (sucrose) equals the molar concentration: 1M = 1 Osm per liter
Osmorality of an electrolyte (NaCl) has a “higher” osmorality because of ionic dissociation and hence exerts a “higher” osmotic force Not exactly because concentration and the interactions between ionic charges with water can influence the system Along with the low osmotic coefficient of NaCl (Φ = 0.91)

21 Osmotic concentration determined by
measuring freezing point depression vapor pressure of the solution Seawater osmotic concentration: 1000 mOsm 470 mmol Na & 550 mmol Cl

22 Two categories of osmotic exchange
Obligatory has little control such as trans-epithelial diffusion, ingestion, defecation, metabolic water production Regulated physiologically controlled and help maintain homeostasis (active transport)

23 Two Strategies to minimize this problem
Decrease the concentration gradient between animal to environment Lower the permeability to the outside in areas that are compromised (gills, gut)

24 Even so Always some diffusive leaks
For a counter-flow system to equal this leak needs energy Osmoregulators spend 5% to 30% of their metabolism in maintaining osmotic balance Highly variable aquatic environment Freshwater Brackish water Seawater Hypersaline water (Med ) Soft water runoffs

25 Euryhaline: Stenohaline: isomotic: osmoconformer: osmoregulator:

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28 Four groups of regulation dealing with water in fishes
Hagfish Marine elasmobranchs Marine teleosts Freshwater teleosts and elasmobranchs

29 Five groups of regulation dealing with ions in fishes
Hagfish Marine elasmobranchs Marine teleosts and lampreys Freshwater teleosts Euryhaline and diadromous teleosts

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31 Aganthans Lampreys live in sea and freshwater but hagfish are strictly marine Both employ different solution to life in the sea

32 Hagfish Are the only true vertebrates whose body fluids have salt concentration similar to seawater Have pronounced ionic regulation

33 Lamprey Egg & larvae develop in fresh water
Some species stay, some migrate to sea Adults return to breed (anadromous fish) Osmotic concentration about 1/4 to 1/3 of the seawater Face similar problems to that of the teleosts

34 Marine Elasmobranchs & Holocephalans
[Salt] at about 1/3 of seawater Osmotic equilibrium achieved by the addition of large amount of organic compounds primarily urea (0.4M) various methylamine substances 2 urea :1 TMAO trimethylamine (TMAO), sarcosine, betaine, etc.

35 Blood osmotic concentration slightly greater than seawater
Water is taken up across the gills, which is used to remove excess urea via urine formation Small osmotic load for the gills Urea and TMAO are efficiently reabsorbed by the kidneys

36 But Urea disrupts, denatured, cause conformational changes in proteins, collagen, hemoglobin, and many enzymes Some elasmobranch proteins are resistance to urea Yancey & Somero (1979): Proteins are actually protected by the presence of TMAO found to have a consistent ratio of 2 urea to 1 TMAO (also in Holocephalan and Latimeria)

37 Neat invention Strategy of using waste products as an economical way for osmoregulation; unlike the invertebrates which invest on free amino acids to increase serum osmorality ionic composition is different from seawater, hence still need to spend energy for ionic regulation Need to have the ornithine-urea cycle

38 Freshwater elasmobranchs
sawfish, bull shark (C. leucas), stingrays are euryhaline live in brackish and even freshwater for long time (Bull in Lake Nicaragua, Mississippi rivers) Urea (25-35%), sodium, and chloride are reduced as compared to sw counterparts produce copious flow of dilute urine to deal with the water influx

39 In freshwater rays, they abandoned urea retention, and reduced ionic content to cope with this problem These freshwater rays are not able to make urea when presented in seawater

40 Coelacanth Blood composition is similar to the marine elasmobranchs
Total osmorality is less than seawater This maybe due to the habitats they live in: aquifers feeding into the caves and fissures that could presumably lower salinity: hence a localized hyperosmotic to the surrounding????

41 Teleost Fish Maintain osmotic concentration at about 1/4 to 1/3 of seawater Marine teleosts have a somewhat higher blood osmotic concentration Some teleosts can tolerate wide range of salinities Some move between fresh and salt water and are associated with life cycle (salmon, eel, lamprey, etc)

42 Marine teleosts Hyposmotic, constant danger of losing water to surrounding via the gill surfaces Compensate for water loss by drinking Salts are ingested in the process of drinking Gain water by excreting salt in higher concentration along the length of its convoluted tubules Produce small amount but very concentrated urine 2.5 ml/kg body mass/day

43 Kidney cannot produce urine that is more concentrated than the blood
Need special organ, the gills Active transport requires energy Water loss from gill membrane and urine Fish drink to balance the water deficits Na and Cl secreted via the gill’s chloride cells Gut: for elimination of divalent salts

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