Ingestion, Digestion and Assimilation Efficiency of the Sea-Anemone Aiptasia pallida Fed Zooplankton Prey

✍ Scribed by William Clayton Jr.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 499 KB
• Volume: 71
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1434-2944
• DOI: 10.1002/iroh.19860710512

✦ Synopsis

Ingestion time, digestion time, and assimilation efficiency by the sea anemone diptasiu pallide were studied in the laboratory by feeding individual anemones preweighed pellets of freeze-dried Arteinia salinu nauplii. There was no significant correlation between anemone size, measured a.s dry weight, a.nd either ingestion time, digestion time or assimilation efficiency. Similarly, there was no significant correlation between meal size (i.e., dry weight of ingested brine shrimp pellet) and either ingestion time, digestion time or assimilation efficiency. These results suggest that., iinder these conditions, assimilation efficiency is unaffected by eit,heu "meal" size or anemone size.

C!ont.ents

1. Introduction . . . . . . 2. Materials and Methods . . 2.1 Specimen maintenance 2.2 Feeding experiments