ON THE RELATION BETWEEN WATER TRANSPORT AND FOOD REQUIREMENTS IN SOME MARINE FILTER FEEDING INVERTEBRATES
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- 1 December 1952
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The Biological Bulletin
- Vol. 103 (3), 356-363
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1538418
Abstract
The oyster, Ostrea virginica, and the ascidians Ciona intestinalis and Molgula manhattensis filter about 10 to 20 liters of water for each milliliter of oxygen consumed. It has been demonstrated that this filtration rate is probably great enough to provide the animals with sufficient amounts of particulate food for maintenance and growth.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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