Comparison between the Nereis diversicolor and Nereis virens marine worms in the transformation of ingested hydrocarbons
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 November 2001
Abstract
A feeding experiment was conducted on the marine worm Nereis diversicolor to compare the fate of a hydrocarbon mixture during the gut passage in this species with the hydrocarbon breakdown process demonstrated for Nereis virens. Hydrocarbon dissolution/solubilization processes in the gut of N. diversicolor were found to have similar qualitative and quantitative importance in the hydrocarbon transformation as those observed in N. virens.
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- Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 81 , Issue 5 , October 2001 , pp. 885 - 886
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- 2001 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
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