Collection and Culture Techniques for Gelatinous Zooplankton
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Collection and culture techniques for gelatinous zooplankton.
Gelatinous zooplankton are the least understood of all planktonic animal groups. This is partly due to their fragility, which typically precludes the capture of intact specimens with nets or trawls. Specialized tools and techniques have been developed that allow researchers and aquarists to collect intact gelatinous animals at sea and to maintain many of these alive in the laboratory. This pape...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Biological Bulletin
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0006-3185,1939-8697
DOI: 10.2307/1543497