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Rate of filtering of fecal pellets byAcartia omorii (Copepoda; Calanoida)

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Adult females ofAcartia omorii were allowed to feed on fecal pellets voided by its juveniles (copepodite stages I and II) in a mixture with the diatomThalassiosira decipiens. The rate of filtering of pellets by adult females was 50.3 ±11.5 ml indiv−1 d−1, being twice as high as the rate of filtering ofT. decipiens.

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Ayukai, T. Rate of filtering of fecal pellets byAcartia omorii (Copepoda; Calanoida). Journal of the Oceanographical Society of Japan 42, 487–489 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02110199

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