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Filter mesh size and food particle uptake byDaphnia

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Food size selection of fourDaphnia, species (D. magna, D. hyalina, D. galeata, D. pulicaria) was investigated using spherical plastic beads as artificial food and with small bacteria. The size of the particles ranged from 0.1 to 35 μm with special emphasis to the particle diameters between 0.1 and 1 μm. In one set of experiments a mixture of differently sized particles was offered as food suspension and the selectivity of filtering was determined by comparing the size spectrum of the particles found in the gut contents with the spectrum in the food suspension. In a second series of experiments suspensions of uniformly sized particles were offered to single animals and their feeding activity was observed directly. In both types of experiments the mesh sizes of the filtering apparatus of the respective animals studied were measured after the experiments by, scanning electron microscopy. The mean sizes of the filter meshes were about 0.4–0.7 μm. In all experiments the size of the particles found in the gut or those which caused high feeding activities were larger than the smallest mesh sizes of the filters. As a consequence simple mechanical sieving provides a sufficient explanation for the mechanism of particle retention of the filtering process inDaphnia. D. magnawas found to feed with high efficiency on suspended freshwater bacteria, the residual species investigated showed low filtering efficiencies when bacteria were offered as

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    《oecologia》 |1984年第3期|408-412|共页
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    MosheGophen; WalterGeller;

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    Kinneret Limnological Laboratory;

    Universität Konstanz;

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