Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Physiology
Temperature regulation in free-swimming bluefin tuna☆
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2016, Progress in OceanographyCitation Excerpt :A specific range of chlorophyll-a concentration (CHL) is also associated with that proxy. ABFT is one of the rare fish species to be thermo-regulated at about 20 °C (e.g. Carey et al., 1971; Carey and Lawson, 1973) and is able to occasionally dive to depths of >1000 m (Block et al., 2001) but spends most of its time in surface waters (79 ± 8% in the first 50 m from tagging studies, Walli et al., 2009). Large ABFTs have thus a rather large tolerance for temperature although it appears to be an important constraint for juvenile fish (Galuardi and Lutcavage, 2012).
Effect of temperature acclimation on red blood cell oxygen affinity in Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) and yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares)
2015, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology -Part A : Molecular and Integrative PhysiologyCitation Excerpt :These regionally endothermic traits, shared with billfish and opah (cranial endothermy), sharks of the family Lamnidae (white, porbeagle, salmon and mako sharks), and some thresher sharks, rely on a system of countercurrent heat exchangers, or retia mirabilia. Retia, densely bundled arteries and veins, facilitate the transfer of heat from blood warmed by the metabolically active tissues (e.g. muscle, viscera, brain and eyes) to cold, well-oxygenated blood entering from the gills, allowing tunas to maintain body temperatures up to 20 °C greater than ambient water temperatures (Carey and Teal, 1966; Carey et al., 1971; Carey and Lawson, 1973; Dizon and Brill, 1979; Block et al., 1993, 2001; Lawson et al., 2010; Weber et al., 2010; Patterson et al., 2011). Warming of muscle, viscera, brain and eye temperatures can increase physiological performance (Carey et al., 1971; Block et al., 1993; Block and Finnerty, 1994; Brill, 1996; Altringham and Block, 1997; Dickson and Graham, 2004), but importantly, at an organismal level, having internal warmth in metabolically active tissues coupled with a heart exposed to ambient temperatures (due to close proximity to the external environment and a coronary circulation at the temperature of ambient water) poses unique O2 transport challenges in these fish.
Predation of pop-up satellite archival tagged albacore (Thunnus alalunga)
2015, Fisheries ResearchCitation Excerpt :Candidate endothermic fish occurring in the study area of sufficient size to predate albacore are the Lamnid sharks: shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) and porbeagle (Lamna nasus); bluefin tuna; the Alopiid thresher sharks (Alopias superciliosus; Alopias vulpinus) and swordfish. Elevated Te is well established in the Lamnid sharks (Carey and Teal, 1969a; Carey et al., 1981; Goldman et al., 2004) and bluefin tuna (Carey and Gibson, 1983; Carey et al., 1984; Carey and Lawson, 1973; Carey and Teal, 1969b) but not in the Alopiids nor swordfish: Te in thresher sharks is likely lower than that observed in this study due to the absence of well-developed retia mirabilia (Weng and Block, 2004). Swordfish can maintain elevated brain and eye temperatures (Block, 1986; Carey, 1982), but core temperatures are closer to Ta temperatures (Carey, 1990) and inconsistent with the sustained Te observed in our predators.
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Contribution No. 2757 from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543. This work was supported by National Science Foundation Grant No. GB 14282, The Bureau of Sport, Fisheries and Wildlife Contract No. 14-16-008-516 and The National Geographic Society.