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Consumption of bacteria by larvae of a deep-sea polychaete
| Title: | Consumption of bacteria by larvae of a deep-sea polychaete. |
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| Name(s): |
Pile, Adele J., creator Young, Craig M., creator Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Article | |
| Issuance: | single unit | |
| Date Issued: | 2006 | |
| Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | |
| Extent: | 6 p. | |
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| Language(s): | English | |
| Identifier: | 3174101 (digitool), FADT3174101 (IID), fau:5772 (fedora), 10.1111/j.1439-0485.2006.00084.x (doi) | |
| Note(s): |
We investigated whether trochophore larvae of the polychaete Hesiocaeca methanicola, which lives on exposed ice-like methane hydrates between 500 and 600 m, could consume near-bottom picoplankton. In laboratory trials larvae significantly reduced the growth rates of all types of picoplankton, including heterotrophic bacteria, Prochlorococcus sp., Synechococcus-type cyanobacteria and phototrophic eucaryotes <3 μm. Our findings suggest that these types of plankton may be important food sources for deep-sea planktotrophic larvae. This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available at http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/ and may be cited as: Pile, A. J., & Young, C. M. (2006). Consumption of bacteria by larvae of a deep-sea polychaete. Marine Ecology 27(1), 15-19. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0485.2006.00084.x Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #1613. |
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| Subject(s): |
Polychaeta Polychaete worms |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3174101 | |
| Links: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0485.2006.00084.x | |
| Restrictions on Access: | ©2006 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
