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The ventilation of three species ofNereis: N. virens, N. succinea andN. diversicolor are measured by a direct flowsensing technique. The weight dependence of ventilation suggests for all three species a direct proportionality (Fig. 3). Oxygen uptake during active ventilation is approximately 6 times higher than at rest for all three species (Fig. 4). This great difference is assumed a consequence of a low conversion efficience and a high degree of internal work, since only 0.1–0.3‰ of the metabolic increase during activity is transformed to the movement of water in polyethylene tubes (Table 3).
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Kristensen, E. Direct measurement of ventilation and oxygen uptake in three species of tubicolous polychaetes (Nereis spp.). J Comp Physiol B 145, 45–50 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00782592
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