Copepodid stages and adults of the shallow- and deep-water species of the Oncaeidae (e.g., Oncaea Philippi, 1843 and Triconia Bottger-Schnack, 1999) are associated with
appendicularian houses, in particular discarded ones, on which phyto- and zooplankters still remain and are consumed by the copepods (Alldredge 1972; Ohtsuka and Kubo 1991; Ohtsuka et al.
Feeding mechanism and house of the
appendicularian Oikopleura vanhoeffeni.
On the southern Gulf of Mexico, it can represent up to 49 % of
appendicularian abundance (Flores-Coto, San Vicente-Anorve, & Sanchez-Ramirez, 2010).
The fate of discarded
appendicularian houses: degradation by the copepod, Microsetella norvegica, and other agents.
Here we use fluorescence confocal microscopy and BrdU labeling to provide the first quantitative analysis of
appendicularian notochord development and growth, including cell numbers and morphologies at different developmental stages.
Appendicularian assemblages in a shelf area and their relationship with temperature.
Here we test the hypothesis that age of a specific developmental stage in the urochordate
appendicularian Oikopleura dioica Fol, 1872, can be predicted from the number of endostyle cells and temperature, thus serving as such a reference system.
Such differences resulted from the disparity between copepod and
appendicularian abundances.
The cultivation of an
appendicularian through numerous generations.
Discarded
appendicularian houses as sources of food, surface habits, and particulate matter in planktonic environments.
Appendicularians (Urochordata) of Costa Rica and adjacent zones.
The remaining 5% of the zooplankton community was composed of cladocerans, ostracods, doliolids, polychaete larvae, medusae, fish eggs, ctenophores, salps, cephalopod paralarvae, bivalves, isopods,
appendicularians, pyrosomes, mysiids, heteropods and echinoderms larvae, stomatopods and cirripeds.