Gonad morphology, oocyte development and spawning cycle of the calanoid copepod Acartia clausi

Table 2 Reproduction of Acartia clausi during incubation experiments

Date	D (h)	N _F	F (%)	Interval (min)	CS (n clutch⁻¹)	EPR (n f⁻¹day⁻¹)	EPR_SF (n f⁻¹day⁻¹)
10.4.	12	108	82	89 (54)	3 (2)	23 (20)	27 (19)
11.4.	12	63	86	91 (53)	2 (1)	20 (15)	24 (14)
2.5.	8	120	80	81 (51)	2 (1)	18 (17)	23 (16)
3.5.	8	120	78	117 (71)	2 (1)	21 (20)	27 (20)
4.5.	8	120	90	83 (48)	2 (1)	28 (26)	31 (26)

Presented are the date of the experiment, the duration of the incubation (D), the number of females in the experiment (N _F), the percentage of females, which spawned during the observation period (F), the median interval between two spawning events, the median clutch size (CS), the daily total egg production rate (EPR), and the egg production rate of spawning females (EPR_SF). In brackets, the median absolute deviation (MAD) is given for clutch size and inter-spawning interval, and the standard deviation (SD) is given for mean EPR and EPR_SF

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