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- Title
Particle capture in ciliary filter-feeding gymnolaemate and phylactolaemate bryozoans – a comparative study.
- Authors
Riisgård, Hans Ulrik; Okamura, Beth; Funch, Peter
- Abstract
Riisgård, H.U., Okamura, B. and Funch, P. 2009. Particle capture in ciliary filter-feeding gymnolaemate and phylactolaemate bryozoans – a comparative study. — Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 91: 416–425. We studied particle capture using video-microscopy in two gymnolaemates, the marine cheilostome Electra pilosa and the freshwater ctenostome Paludicella articulata, and three phylactolaemates, Fredericella sultana with a circular funnel-shaped lophophore, and Cristatella mucedo and Lophophus crystallinus, both with a horseshoe-shaped lophophore. The video-microscope observations along with studies of lophophore morphology and ultrastructure indicated that phylactolaemate and gymnolaemate bryozoans with a diversity of lophophore shapes rely on the same basic structures and mechanisms for particle capture. Our study also demonstrates that essential features of the particle capture process resemble one another in bryozoans, brachiopods and phoronids.
- Subjects
BRYOZOA; BRACHIOPODA; PHORONIDA; MARINE insects; COMPARATIVE studies
- Publication
Acta Zoologica, 2010, Vol 91, Issue 4, p416
- ISSN
0001-7272
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1463-6395.2009.00417.x