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208 CHAPITRE 5. ADAPTATIONS RESPIRATOIRES DE S. MESATLANTICA<br />

471.6 mM for control crabs <strong>and</strong> 503.8 mM for acclimated crabs. This reflects a change in ionic<br />

regulation with Na+ being hyper-regulated after repressurization compared to the sea water salinity.<br />

The cause <strong>and</strong> the role of this change are unclear. High calcium <strong>and</strong> potassium levels were correlated<br />

with normoxia but no clear physiological interpretation can be made.<br />

In most crustaceans, hypoxia, high temperature or stress usually induce a lactate <strong>and</strong>/or urate<br />

response (Bridges, 2001). For hydrothermal vent crustaceans, a strong lactate response was observed<br />

in Bythograea thermydron under severe hypoxia (31.1 mM lactate in 5 % O 2 ) <strong>and</strong> up to 20.4 mM<br />

lactate was measured in Cyanagraea praedator after a 4h30 stabulation at atmospheric pressure.<br />

Thus the absence of lactate response in S. <strong>mesatlantica</strong> is original. An absence of lactate response<br />

was also observed in the buried isopod Saduria entomon which has only about 3 mM lactate after<br />

144 h exposure to severe hypoxia (Hagerman et Szaniawska, 1988).<br />

Response in term of phenotypic plasticity / Hc structure<br />

Phenotypic plasticity has been observed in several species during development (Cancer magister)<br />

(Terwilliger et Terwilliger, 1982, Terwilliger et Dumler, 2001) or in response to environmental<br />

changes (Callinectes sapidus, Panulirus elephas, Panulirus mauritanicus) (Bellelli et al., 1988, Condó<br />

et al., 1991, Mangum, 1994). In our study, no effect of acclimation condition was found on the subunit<br />

composition for S. <strong>mesatlantica</strong>. Thus phenotypic plasticity at the subunit level is not involved<br />

in the physiological response to respiratory stresses under the conditions tested here. The short term<br />

adaptation in our crabs must be rather hemolymphatic than phenotypic. It can be interpreted in term<br />

of metabolic cost : the cost of protein synthesis for short time adaptation (16 h) must be higher than<br />

a hemolymphatic response such as urate production or a local acidification near metabolizing tissues<br />

coupled with a strong Bohr effect.<br />

A strong response in complex proportions was observed, with a higher proportion of hexamer in<br />

high temperature acclimated crab <strong>and</strong> a higher proportion of dodecamer in low temperature acclimated<br />

crabs. A similar difference in complex proportions under temperature adaptation was observed<br />

for Astacus leptodactylus <strong>and</strong> was associated with a higher affinity of the hexamer (Decker et Foll,<br />

2000). In our case, functional properties of purified complexes from a single individual could not<br />

be investigated due to the low quantity of available material for each crab. The potential physiological<br />

advantages for oxygen transport of this proportion adjustment are unclear. Previous studies have<br />

shown similar properties for both complexes (Ocypode quadrata (Johnson, 1987)), a higher affinity<br />

for the hexamer (Astacus leptodactylus, Callinectes sapidus (Mangum et al., 1991), Carcinus aestuarii<br />

(Dainese et al., 1998)) or the dodecamer (Penaeus monodon (Beltramini et al., 2005), Litopenaeus<br />

vannamei (y. Pan et al., 2008), Calappa granulata at high pH (Olianas et al., 2006)) depending on

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