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Cellulase production in Sabella penicillus (Annelida: Polychaeta)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

D. B. Lewis
D. B. Lewis
Affiliation:
Department of Adult Education University of Hull 195 Cottingham Road Hull
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From analyses of the gut content of Sabella penicillus L. Hunt (1925, as S. pavonina) showed that the food consists mainly of finely sorted plankton and detritus. The chief constituents were usually bottom-living diatoms, but planktonic forms when present made up the bulk of the food. Peridinians, silicoflagellates, foraminifera and tintinnids were also found to occur. These observations were confirmed by Nicol (1930) and in the present study, in which some individual worms were found to contain very large numbers of planktonic dinoflagellates, and pieces of red, green and brown algae, and encysted flagellates.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 60 , Issue 4 , November 1980 , pp. 1069 - 1070
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1980

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