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PT J
TI Feeding behaviour of the mussel, Mytilus edulis : responses to variations in quantity and organic content of the seston
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AF BAYNE, BL
   IGLESIAS, JIP
   HAWKINS, AJS
   NAVARRO, E
   HERAL, Maurice
   DESLOUS PAOLI, Jean-Marc
AS 1:1;2:2;3:1;4:2;5:3;6:3;
FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;
C1 Plymouth Marine Laboratory, The Hoe, Plymouth, PL1 3DH, UK
   UNIV BASQUE COUNTRY, DEPT BIOL ANIM & GENET, E-48080 BILBAO, SPAIN.
   IFREMER, F-17390 LA TREMBLADE, FRANCE.
C2 PML, UK
   UNIV PAIS VASCO, SPAIN
   IFREMER, FRANCE
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
IF 0.702
TC 274
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/1993/publication-3069.pdf
LA English
DT Article
AB Mussels were fed four concentrations of seston (between 0•99 and 10•3mgtotalseston P), comprising three levels of organic content (71•9, 63•6 and 40•8%), made up from natural silt and two species of cultured phytoplankton. Two of the seston concentrations were below, and two above, the threshold at which pseudofaeces were produced. Measurements of physiological traits (filtration rates, pseudofaeces production, selection efficiency, absorption efficiency, absorption rates and rates of oxygen consumption) were made after 2 days and, for two of the seston concentrations, also after 12 days. When fed at a high concentration of seston of low organic content, the mussels increased their filtration rate, rejected a higher proportion of filtered material as pseudofaeces, and increased the efficiency with which filtered matter of higher organic content was selected for ingestion; this resulted in a constancy of the relationship between ingestion rate and the concentration of particulate organic matter, regardless of differences in seston organic content. Between 2 and 12 d, the mussels increased absorption rates for organics, primarily by increasing absorption efficiency, both for total organics and for the carbohydrate component of the diet. We suggest that these responses to changes in the food environment comprise physiological adjustments which result in higher net rates of absorption than would be predicted from considerations only of the organic/inorganic ratio of the suspended particles and assumptions of a non-compensating feeding behaviour.
PY 1993
PD NOV
SO Journal Of The Marine Biological Association Of The United Kingdom
SN 0025-3154
PU Cambridge Univ Press
VL 73
IS 4
UT A1993MH49200006
BP 813
EP 829
ID 3069
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