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+[[!meta title="Yellow-stained oikopleurid appendicularians are caused by bacterial parasitism"]]
+[[!tag Oikopleura]]
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+Flood, P. R.
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+MEPS 71:291-295
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+Yellow-stained oikopleurid appendicularians are caused by bacterial parasitism
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+[Rod-shaped (0.6 or 0.4 µm-wide) bacteria observed by transmission and electron microscopy in O. dioica and O. vanhoeffeni](https://www.jstor.org/stable/24817302)
the rectum. Lipid uptake might happen in the right lobe of the stomach
([[Burighel, Brena, Martinucci and Cima
(2005)|biblio/10.1111_j.1744-7410.2001.tb00038.x]]).
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+ - Yellow color can be caused by bacterial infection. [[Flood (1991)|biblio/24817302]]
+ observed rod-shaped bacteria (0.6 or 0.4 µm-wide) in _O. doica_ or _O. vanhoeffeni_.
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