Food

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+[[!meta title="Functional response of the appendicularian Oikopleura dioica."]]
+[[!tag Oikopleura]]
+
+José Luis Acuña and Markus Kiefer.
+
+Limnology and Oceanography Volume 45, Issue 3, Pages 608–18, 26 April 2000
+
+Functional response of the appendicularian Oikopleura dioica.
+
+[[!doi 10.4319/lo.2000.45.3.0608 desc="“Particles cleared from suspension by O. dioica are ingested and transformed into fast‐sinking fecal pellets at low FC, while they are mainly accumulated into slow to fast‐sinking filter houses at high FC”.  Food used in this study: Isochrysis galbana (5.5 µm in size), Tetraselmis suecica (9.5 µm), and Chlorella sp. (3.5 µm)."]]

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@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ Some links:
  - Études sur les Appendiculaires du Détroit de Messine, Hermann Fol, 1872
    ([[ark:/13960/t7fr0vj77|https://archive.org/details/cbarchive_100233_etudessurlesappendiculairesdud1821]]).
 
+Food tested in laboratory (totally incomplete list): _Isochrysis galbana_ (5.5
+µm in size), _Tetraselmis suecica_ (9.5 µm), and the chlorophyte _Chlorella
+sp._ (3.5 µm) [[Acuña and Kiefer, 2000|10.4319_lo.2000.45.3.0608.mdwn]].
+
+
 Phylogeny
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@@ -197,5 +202,8 @@ Ecology
  - It was already reported to be frequent in Japanese waters [[in 1907 by T. Aida|biblio/AA0069577]].
  - As of August 2018, _O. dioica_ is not yet found in the [BOLD](http://www.boldsystems.org/)
    database of DNA barcodes.
+ - Carbon output of _O. dioica_ is either their house or fecal pellets, the
+   ratio of which may depend on food concentration ([[Acuña and
+   Kiefer, 2000|10.4319_lo.2000.45.3.0608.mdwn]]).
 
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