Article: Cost of protein synthesis and energy allocation during development of Antarctic sea urchin embryos and larvae.

Introduction

The relationship between temperature and metabolism of animals is an important theme in environmental physiology (Portner and Playle, 1998; Hochachka and Somero, 2002; Portner, 2006). For metabolic adaptations of animals living in cold environments, the interpretation of measured respiration rates has been debated for many decades, starting with the pioneering work of Krogh (1914) and the concept of metabolic cold adaptation (Scholander et al., 1953; Wohlschlag, 1960; Holeton, 1974; Clarke, 1991; Peck and Conway, 2000). In polar oceans, research has revealed unique evolutionary mechanisms of biological adaptation to extreme cold. For instance, ...

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