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+[[!meta title="Abandoned larvacean houses: a unique food source in the pelagic environment"]]
+[[!tag Oikopleura]]
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+Alldredge AL.
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+Science. 1972 Sep 8;177(4052):885-7. doi:10.1126/science.177.4052.885
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+Abandoned larvacean houses: a unique food source in the pelagic environment
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+[[!pmid 17780989 desc="The copepod _Oncaea mediterranea_ can feed on appendicularian houses (lab experiment with starved copepods). As some nanoplankton is caugt in the abandonned houses, this brings back the nanplankton in the copepod food chain."]]
is lost during later development.
- Study of the _O. dioica_ house and the origin of its components on the oikoblastic
epithelium, using multiple microscopy techniques [[Razghandi and coll., 2020|biblio/34041785]].
+ - Abandonned houses bring nanoplankton into the copepod food chain
+ ([[Alldredge AL, 1972|biblio/17780989]]).
Phenotypes
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