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Species specific differences in the ingestion of Microcystis cells by the calanoid copepods Eurytemora affinis and Pseudodiaptomus forbesi

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JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH
Volume 32, Issue 10, Pages 1479-1484

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbq071

Keywords

microcystis; copepod; ingestion; zooplankton; cyanobacteria

Funding

  1. Dr Swee Teh's Aquatic Toxicology Program
  2. California Interagency Ecological Program [PO685515]
  3. California Department of Water Resources [4600007499, 4600008137]

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Copepod species showed large differences in the ingestion of Microcystis cells, but no difference among microcystin producing (MC+) or lacking (MC-) strains in a short feeding experiment. Differences in selective feeding may allow some copepods to better tolerate Microcystis.

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