McMurdo Sound

Dayton PK, Robillard GA, Paine RT (1970) Benthic faunal zonation as a result of anchor ice at McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. In Holgate MW (ed) Antarctic ecology, vol 1. Academic, New York, pp 244-258... 

Lippert H, Iken K, Rachor E, Wiencke C (2001) Macrofauna associated with macroalgae in the Kongsfjord (Spitsbergen). Polar Biol 24 512-522 McClintock JB, Baker BJ (2001) Marine chemical ecology. CRC, Boca Raton, FL Miller KA, Pearse JS (1991) Ecological studies of seaweeds in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Am Zool 31 35—48... 

McClintock, J.B., Investigation of the relationship between invertebrate predation and biochemical composition, energy content, spicule armament and toxicity of benthic sponges at McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, Mar. Biol., 94, 479, 1987. 

Foster, B.A., Carghill, J.M., and Montgomery, J.C., Planktivory in Pagothenia borchgrevinki (Pisces Notheniidae) in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, Polar Biol., 8, 49, 1987. 

Sponges are the dominant macroinvertebrate found on the Antarctic benthos.31-32-70-71 Dayton et al.31 reported that sponges occupy 55% of the shallow-water McMurdo Sound benthos, and Burton70 drew an analogy between the Antarctic benthos and the benthos of the Cretaceous era, which was... 

Discorhabdin and related pigments have been isolated from temperate and tropical sponges of the genera Latrunculia, Prianos, Zyzzya, and Batzella 94 discorhabdin C (Structure 7.11)95 and G (Structure 7.12)38 were recently found in Latrunculia apicalis collected from McMurdo Sound.96 Discorhabdins often bear significant cytotoxicity. Discorhabdin C is perhaps the strongest sea star deterrent studied to date and displays broad spectrum antibiotic activity toward sympatric bacteria.38 96... 

Bathydoris hodgsoni can be found in the deep waters of the Weddell Sea. This nudibranch elaborates the drimane sesquiterpene hodgsonal (Structure 7.78) and sequesters it in its mantle tissues.50 164The nudibranch Tritoniella belli collected from McMurdo Sound is the only documented example of an Antarctic mollusc sequestering defensive chemistry from its diet.44 Among the glyceride esters (Structures 7.79-7.81) isolated from this species, chimyl alcohol (Structure 7.79) can also be found in one of its prey items, the stoloniferan coral Clavularia frankliniana. Sequestration of these defensive chemicals is opportunistic, however, and other, still undescribed metabolites are more commonly associated with defense in this mollusc.49... 

The bright yellow lamellarian gastropod Marseniopsis mollis collected at McMurdo Sound produces the feeding deterrent homarine.51 Homarine is widely distributed in marine phyla and has been suggested to serve as an osmolyte.165... 

McClintock, J. B., Baker, B. J., Amsler, C. D., and Barlow, T. L., Chemotactic tube-foot responses of the spongivorous sea star Perknaster fuscus to organic extracts of sponges from McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, Antarctic Sci., 12, 41, 2000. 

Dayton, P. K., Observations of growth, dispersal and population dynamics of some sponges in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, in Sponge Biology, Levi, C. and Bourny-Esnault, N., Eds., Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (C. N. R. S.), Paris, 1979, 271. 

On July 21, 1998 the United States Board on Geographic Names recognized Drs. McClintock and Baker by naming geographic features after them on the north (McClintock Point) and south (Baker Point) sides of Explorers Cove, New Harbor, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. This honor was bestowed upon them to recognize their extensive contributions to Antarctic marine biology and chemical ecology. 

Raymond, J.A., and A.L. DeVries (1998). Elevated concentrations and synthetic pathways of tri-methylamine oxide and urea in some teleost fishes of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Fish. Physiol. Biochem. 18 387-398. 

Macdonald, J.A., J.C. Montgomery, and R.M.G. Wells (1988). The physiology of McMurdo Sound fishes current New Zealand research. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. B. 90 567-578. 

Palmisano AC, SooHoo JB, SooHoo SL, Kottmeier ST, Craft LL, Sullivan CW (1986) Photoadaptation in Phaeocystis pouchetii advected beneath annual sea ice in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. J Plankton Res 8 891-906... 

Putt M, Miceli G, Stoecker DK (1994) Association of bacteria with Phaeocystis sp. in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 105 179-189 Reichenbach H, Dworkin M (1991) The order Cytopha-gales. In Balows A, Truber HG, Dworkin M, Harder W, Schleifer KH (eds) The prokaryotes. Springer-Verlag, New York, pp 356-379... 

The bacteria inoculum was prepared from 0.8 pm prefiltered Antarctic seawater collected four months before the experiments at McMurdo Sound (Antarctica). These bacteria were pre-incubated in LFe (<1 nM) and HFe (+2 nM) Antarctic seawaters for at least five generations. They were grown in the dark at 2°C. 

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