| the activities of enzymes associated with the intermediary and energy metabolism in hypogean and epigean crustaceans. | the activities of 18 enzymes involved in the intermediary and energy metabolism were measured in certain widely-spread peracarid crustaceans: 3 hypogean (niphargus virei, niphargus rhenorhodanensis and stenasellus virei) and 2 epigean (gammarus fossarum and asellus aquaticus) ones. the activities of numerous enzymes were correlated with the known metabolic rates of the 5 species. such rates are reduced in hypogean organisms: levels of enzymatic activity in subterranean species were 1.2 to 8.6 ti ... | 1996 | 9091176 |