<i>In situ</i> diet of the copepod <i>Calanus sinicus</i> in coastal waters of the South Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea

YI Xiaoyan; HUANG Yousong; ZHUANG Yunyun; CHEN Hongju; YANG Feifei; WANG Weimin; XU Donghui; LIU Guangxing; ZHANG Huan

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YI Xiaoyan, HUANG Yousong, ZHUANG Yunyun, CHEN Hongju, YANG Feifei, WANG Weimin, XU Donghui, LIU Guangxing, ZHANG Huan. In situ diet of the copepod Calanus sinicus in coastal waters of the South Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2017, 36(6): 68-79. doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-0974-6

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YI Xiaoyan, HUANG Yousong, ZHUANG Yunyun, CHEN Hongju, YANG Feifei, WANG Weimin, XU Donghui, LIU Guangxing, ZHANG Huan. In situ diet of the copepod Calanus sinicus in coastal waters of the South Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2017, 36(6): 68-79. doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-0974-6

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In situ diet of the copepod Calanus sinicus in coastal waters of the South Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea

doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-0974-6

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Key Laboratory of Marine Environment and Ecology(Ocean University of China), Ministry of Education, Qingdao 266100, China;College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China
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College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China
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Key Laboratory of Marine Environment and Ecology(Ocean University of China), Ministry of Education, Qingdao 266100, China;Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton 06340, USA

Received Date: 2016-03-21
Rev Recd Date: 2016-08-02

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Copepods are a key trophic link between primary producers and predatory animals at higher trophic levels in the marine ecosystem. Knowledge of the in situ composition of the copepod diet is critical for the accurate evaluation of trophic relationships and energy transfer in marine food webs. In this study, we applied a PCR-based cloning technique developed previously to investigate the in situ diet of Calanus sinicus, an ecologically important large-sized calanoid copepod that dominates in the shelf waters around China, Japan and Korea. Analyses of the 18S rDNA sequences obtained from the copepod diet revealed the diverse food composition of C. sinicus from two stations (Y19 in the South Yellow Sea and B49 in the Bohai Sea). A total of 43 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) were detected, which belonged to 13 diverse lineages:Bacillariophyta, Dinoflagellata, Dictyochophyceae, Chrysophyta, Katablepharidophyta, Pelagophyceae, Apusozoa, Hydrozoa, Ctenophora, Echinodermata, Tunicata, Chaetognatha and marine fungi. The results indicate that during an algae bloom, C. sinicus can graze on the bloom causative species. When the abundance of phytoplankton in ambient water is relatively low, C. sinicus can choose eggs, larvae, or organic particles/detritus of various metazoans, especially hydrozoans and ctenophores, as alternative food sources. Our result suggests that C. sinicus is an omnivorous species, and its prey choice may depend on the food availability in the ambient waters.
- copepod,
- in situ diet,
- molecular analysis,
- 18S rDNA,
- ciliate blocking primer

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