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+[[!meta title="New technology reveals the role of giant larvaceans in oceanic carbon cycling."]]
+[[!tag Oikopleura]]
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+Sci Adv. 2017 May 3;3(5):e1602374. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1602374
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+Katija K, Sherlock RE, Sherman AD, Robison BH.
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+New technology reveals the role of giant larvaceans in oceanic carbon cycling.
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+[[!pmid 28508058 desc="DeepPIV, particule image velocimetry in the deep see using laser sheet illumination. B. stygius and mcnutti specimens with tail lenght ranging between 2.2 and 2.9 cm can filter between 22 and 76 liters per hour."]]
filter” by [[Conley and coll., 2017|biblio/10.1002_lno.10680]], who observed
its expansion and contraction at high spatial and temporal resolution.
- In _O. labradorensis_, [[Flood (1991)|biblio/10.1007_BF01986351]] estimated
- that 35 ml of water were filtered per hour.
+ that 35 ml of water were filtered per hour. In comparison, the giant
+ species Bathochordaeus mcnutti was reported to filter as much as 76 L/h
+ ([[Katija and coll., 2018|biblio/28508058]]).
Phenotypes