Evidence for partitioning of physiological functions between holobranchs: Protein synthesis rates in flounder gills

Fractional rates of protein synthesis were significantly greater in the fir st than in the second and third, but not the fourth, holobranchs of seawate r-adapted flounders. These differences may reflect partitioning of physiolo gical functions between holobranchs. (C) 1999 The Fisheries Society of the British Isles.