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The Rate of Feeding by Mytilus in Different Kinds of Suspension

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

C. Barker Jørgensen
C. Barker Jørgensen
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From the Plymouth Laboratory, and the Laboratory of Zoophysiology, University of Copenhagen
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The feeding rate of small specimens of Mytilus edulis (L.) has been determined in suspensions of colloidal graphite (‘Prodag’, grade ‘C’, and ‘Aquadag’, grade ‘S’), of flagellates, and of Nitzschia dosterium. The feeding rate was measured as the volume of water cleared from particles per unit time. In graphite suspensions, with particle size of about 4–5μ, as a rule only a small percentage of the particles was retained by the gills, whereas flagellates of about the same size were normally nearly all retained.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , October 1949 , pp. 333 - 344
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1949

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