Oxygen consumption and pumping rates in the hard clam Mercenaria mercenaria: a direct method.
Respiratory and pumping rates in the hard clam Mercenaria mercenaria were measured directly in running seawater; the quiatntity of oxygen used was calculated from the difference in concentrations in incurrent and excurrent water. A linear relationship between pumping and respiratory rates suggests regulation of water transport by, oxygen requirement rather than by feeding.
D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport; D008722:Methods; D008974:Mollusca; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D014867:Water / Q000502:physiology
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