Mechanisms of acid-base regulation in seawater-acclimated green crabs, Carcinus maenas

The present study investigated acid-base regulatory mechanisms in seawater-acclimated green crabs (Carcinus maenas (L., 1758)). In full-strength seawater, green crabs are osmoconformers so that the majority of the observed responses were attributed to ion-fluxes based on acid-base compensatory responses alone. Similar to observations in brackish-water acclimated C. maenas, seawater-acclimated green crabs exposed to hypercapnia rapidly accumulated HCO3The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author