[Studies upon behaviour of snails in anthropogenically changed water environment. 1. Locomotor activity of Lymnaea stagnalis (L.), with regard to subpopulations infected with developmental stages of digeneans].
The aim of the paper was to analyse the locomotor activity of snails, Lymnaea stagnalis, with regard to physico-chemical properties of water in an inhabited reservoir and parasitic infection. The material was collected in selected anthropogenic water environments situated in the Upper Silesian Industrial Region (sinkhole ponds, sand- and clay-excavations). The locomotor activity of each snail was analysed in laboratory conditions by designation of number of penetrated segments, marked in tanks filled with water originating from a given reservoir, during 15', with intervals of 1'. It was observed the significant relationship between locomotor activity of examined snails and the water carbonaceous hardness (r = -0,812, at range of the independent variable 173.0-863.5 mg CaCO3/dm3). Correlation coefficients with other physico-chemical parameters of water were close to zero. Locomotion of snails infected with developmental stages of digenetic trematodes was significantly lower comparing to non-infected individuals. Locomotor activity of these former ones was dependend more on degree of the digestive gland damage by the parasite than on the infection agent.
Pokora
Zbigniew
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Katedra Biologii i Parazytologii, Slaska Akademia Medyczna, ul. Medyków 18, 40-752 Katowice-Ligota. zpokora@slam.katowice.pl
D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D005618:Fresh Water / Q000469:parasitology*; D006790:Host-Parasite Interactions; D008195:Lymnaea / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000502:physiology*; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology*; D014200:Trematoda / Q000472:pathogenicity / Q000502:physiology*