MEASUREMENTS OF THE METABOLISM OF TWO PROTOZOANS
Open Access
- 20 November 1929
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of general physiology
- Vol. 13 (2), 153-158
- https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.13.2.153
Abstract
1. The respiration of Amoeba proteus was measured. 10 c. mm. of cells were found to use about 1.6 mm.3 of oxygen per hour at 20°C. The respiratory quotient was found to be nearly unity. 2. No anaerobic metabolism was found for Amoeba. 3. The respiration of Blepharisma was found to be from 3 to 7 mm.3 oxygen per hour for 10 mm.3 cells. The respiratory quotient was about 1. 4. Blepharisma was shown to have a definite anaerobic metabolism. 80 mm.3 cells caused the evolution of 12.5 mm.3 carbon dioxide per hour at 20°C. in the presence of bicarbonate.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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