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Biol Bull 150: 38-46. (February 1976)
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DELAYED NAUPLIAR DEVELOPMENT OF MEIOBENTHIC COPEPODS

BRUCE C. COULL 1 and BETTYE W. DUDLEY 1

1 Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine Biology and Coastal Research and Department of Biology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. 29208

1. Four species of harpacticoid copepods maintained in culture appear to be able to inherently delay the duration of their naupliar stages.

2. Stage 1-3 nauplii continue to appear in culture up to 50 days after the mother hatches her eggs.

3. Those species with the delayed development essentially change from an r-strategist to a K-strategist during naupliar growth.

4. If delayed development also takes place in the field, then those species capable of delaying development in response to some "factor" have a distinct ecologic advantage over those that cannot.






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