Filtration of submicrometer particles by pelagic tunicates
Salps are common in oceanic waters and have higher per-individual filtration rates than any other zooplankton filter feeder. Although salps are centimeters in length, feeding via particle capture occurs on a fine, mucous mesh (fiber diameter d ∼0.1 μm) at low velocity (U = 1.6 ± 0.6 cm·s−1, mean ± S...
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National Academy of Sciences (U.S.),
2013-03-21T20:29:34Z.
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