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Variations in the Oxygen Uptake, Reduced Weight and Metabolic Rate of Starving Sporocysts of Microphallus pygmaeus (Levinsen, 1881) (Trematoda: Microphallidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2009

Roy J. Richards
Roy J. Richards
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University College of Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea, Wales
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The variations in the oxygen uptake, reduced weight, metabolic rate and the number of contained, fully formed, healthy, autolysed or dead metacercariae, recorded during starvation in sea water, in vitro, suggest that first mainly stored carbohydrates, then mainly lipids and, in the final stages of starvation, mainly proteins are broken down and metabolised, by the sporocysts of Microphallus pygmaeus.

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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , March 1970 , pp. 75 - 88
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1970

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