...). Additionally, clearance rates of the suspended particles ranged from 0.3 to 0.9 l h −1 . The findings of this study thus provide evidence of a previously undescribed particle uptake mechanism in a commercially important species. * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) Competing interests...

... metabolically costly behaviors while inhibiting food capture. Aerobic scope Capture efficiency Ciliary swimming Clearance rate Kolmogorov scale Swimming efficiency Most benthic populations depend on a supply of planktonic larvae, but nearly all larvae die during the dispersal phase (typically...