ON THE RATE OF OXYGEN CONSUMPTION BY FERTILIZED AND UNFERTILIZED EGGS III. NEREIS LIMBATA

Whitaker , D. M.

doi:10.1085/jgp.15.2.191

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ON THE RATE OF OXYGEN CONSUMPTION BY FERTILIZED AND UNFERTILIZED EGGS : III. NEREIS LIMBATA

D. M. Whitaker

From the Laboratory of General Physiology, Harvard University, Cambridge, and the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole

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D. M. Whitaker

From the Laboratory of General Physiology, Harvard University, Cambridge, and the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole

Accepted: September 09 1931

Online ISSN: 1540-7748

Print ISSN: 0022-1295

Copyright, 1931, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research

1931

J Gen Physiol (1931) 15 (2): 191–200.

https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.15.2.191

1. The rate of consumption of oxygen by unfertilized Nereis eggs is about 1.1 mm.³ O₂ 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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