Food and habitat preferences of the earthworm Lumbricus terrestris L. for cover crops
✍ Scribed by Jan Valckx; Andrea Cordón Pina; Gerard Govers; Martin Hermy; Bart Muys
- Book ID
- 116827642
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 377 KB
- Volume
- 54
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0031-4056
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## Abstract The earthworm __Lumbricus terrestris__ is ammonotelic while feeding but becomes ureotelic with fasting. The metabolic sources of ammonia nitrogen in feeding worms have been examined. Two deaminating enzymes, L‐serine dehydratase and 5′‐AMP deaminase, have been observed to be present in
## Abstract The coelomocytes of __Lumbricus terrestris__ have been classified and described, based on Wright's stained preparations and on living cells. The five major categories consist of basophils, acidophils, neutrophils, granulocytes and chloragogen cells. Both the acidophil and chloragogen ce