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Measurement of Oxygen Consumption Rates in Intact Caenorhabditis elegans
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ON THE RATE OF OXYGEN CONSUMPTION BY FERTILIZED AND UNFERTILIZED EGGS : III. NEREIS LIMBATA
1Laboratory of General Physiology, Harvard University, Cambridge, and the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole.
The Journal of General Physiology
|October 30, 2009
Abstract:
1. The rate of consumption of oxygen by unfertilized Nereis eggs is about 1.1 mm.(3) O(2) per hour per 10 mm.(3) eggs. 2. Following fertilization the rate increases to 135 per cent or 145 per cent of the prefertilization rate, and continues to increase for 2 hours (the duration of the measurements).
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