Feeding, growth, reproduction and antioxidant capacity in pigmented and unpigmented Eurytemora affinis in field and experimental studies.

(A) grazing rate (GR; left axis, n = 12) on Rhodomonas salina and gut content fluorescence (GCF; right axis, n = 10) measured in the field collected copepods; (B) egg ratio in the samples collected in the study area (n = 12); (C) RNA:DNA ratio in the copepods (Experiment 3: n = 12; field samples: n = 10), and (D) total antioxidant capacity assayed as ORAC (Experiment 3: n = 12; field samples: n = 10). All data are shown as mean ±SD.