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Comparison between the Nereis diversicolor and Nereis virens marine worms in the transformation of ingested hydrocarbons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 November 2001

F. Gilbert ,
G. Desrosiers ,
S. Hulth  and
G. Stora
F. Gilbert
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Océanographie et de Biogéochimie (UMR CNRS 6535), Campus de Luminy, case 901, F-13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France
G. Desrosiers
Affiliation:
Institut des Sciences de la Mer (ISMER), Université du Québec à Rimouski, 310 allée des Ursulines, Rimouski, Québec, G5L 3A1, Canada
S. Hulth
Affiliation:
Department of Analytical and Marine Chemistry, Göteborg University, S-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
G. Stora
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Océanographie et de Biogéochimie (UMR CNRS 6535), Campus de Luminy, case 901, F-13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France
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Abstract

 A feeding experiment was conducted on the marine worm Nereis diversicolor to compare the fate of a hydrocarbon mixture during the gut passage in this species with the hydrocarbon breakdown process demonstrated for Nereis virens. Hydrocarbon dissolution/solubilization processes in the gut of N. diversicolor were found to have similar qualitative and quantitative importance in the hydrocarbon transformation as those observed in N. virens.

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Short Communications
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 81 , Issue 5 , October 2001 , pp. 885 - 886
Copyright
2001 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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