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+[[!meta title="Morphology, ecology, and molecular biology of a new species of giant larvacean in the eastern North Pacific: Bathochordaeus mcnutti sp. nov."]]
+[[!tag Oikopleura]]
+
+Sherlock RE, Walz KR, Schlining KL, Robison BH.
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+Mar Biol. 2017;164(1):20. doi:10.1007/s00227-016-3046-0
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+Morphology, ecology, and molecular biology of a new species of giant larvacean in the eastern North Pacific: Bathochordaeus mcnutti sp. nov.
+
+[[!pmid 28042175 desc="_B. mcnutti_ are 3–10 cm long. Their tails have a blue outline. Gravid individuals descend as low as 800 m, but spawning is thought to happen above 100 m. The CO1 gene is ~12% different between _B. mcnutti_ and _B. strygius_."]]
species” ([[Denoeud et al., 2010|biblio/21097902]]).
- Giant Oikopleurid species, such as exist in deeper waters. _Bathochordaeus charon_'s 18S
RNA is 97% identical to the one of _O. dioica_ ([[Sherlock and coll, 2016|biblio/10.1186_s41200-016-0075-9]]).
+ - CO1 DNA of _B. mcnutti_ and _B. strygius_ are ~12% different[[Sherlock and coll., 2017|biblio/28042175]].
+
Genome
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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. In comparison, the giant
- species Bathochordaeus mcnutti was reported to filter as much as 76 L/h
+ species _Bathochordaeus mcnutti_ was reported to filter as much as 76 L/h
([[Katija and coll., 2018|biblio/28508058]]).
- Filter-feeding in marine animals has been reviewed by [[Conley, Lombard and
Sutherland (2018)|biblio/29720410]].
- Oikopleuridae can be found in the deep see. For instance, [[Lindsay and
coll., 2014|biblio/10.1007_978-4-431-54865-2_51]] reported _Oikopleura_, _Mesochordaeus_
and _Bathochordaeus_ individuals in the Hatoma Knoll hydrothermal vent, Okinawa Trough.
+ - Gravid _B mcnutti_ individuals are found at down to 800 m, but spawning is supposed to
+ happen closer to the surface ([[Sherlock and coll., 2017|biblio/28042175]]).
- Oikopleuridae have been reported to be able to ingest microplastics. Example(s):
_B. stygius_ ([[Katija and coll., 2017b|biblio/28835922]]).
- _O. dioica_ can filter, ingest and defecate the _Emiliania huxleyi_ virus