Metabolic Dormancy in Aquatic Invertebrates

摘要: One major approach used by invertebrates for coping with extreme environmental conditions is to enter states of metabolic and developmental dormancy. The possession a latent or resting stage common occurrence in the life cycle organisms inhabiting inconsistent ephemeral environments, this phenomenon has been source long-standing speculation fascination (cf. van Leeuwenhoek 1702). Considering remarkable habitat diversity that exists among aquatic invertebrates, it not surprising distribution dormancy broadly scattered phylogenetically. Resting stages have now reported virtually every phylum notable exception Echinodermata. In some taxa, mature adult forms ability rest, while others, specialized are only during earlier cycles.