Feeding rates of some cryptozoa as determined by isotopic half-life studies. Gist, undefined & Crossley, D. A. 1975.
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Rates of ingestion were measured for nine groups of invertebrate cryptozoans, utilizing radioactive tracer turnover rate measurements. These groups were Diplopoda, Cryptostigmata, Pulmonata, Mesostigmata, Collembola, Orthoptera, Coleoptera, and two groups of Araneida. The radioisotopes 51344Cs and 5854Sr were considered as the metabolic analogs of potassium and calcium, respectively. Feeding rates were calculated as the ingestion necessary to maintain body pools of these elements. Values obtained were somewhat lower than results reported by others, possibly due to inflated estimates of assimilation for the radioisotopes.
@article{gist_feeding_1975,
	title = {Feeding rates of some cryptozoa as determined by isotopic half-life studies.},
	abstract = {Rates of ingestion were measured for nine groups of invertebrate cryptozoans, utilizing radioactive tracer turnover rate measurements. These groups were Diplopoda, Cryptostigmata, Pulmonata, Mesostigmata, Collembola, Orthoptera, Coleoptera, and two groups of Araneida. The radioisotopes 51344Cs and 5854Sr were considered as the metabolic analogs of potassium and calcium, respectively.  Feeding rates were calculated as the ingestion necessary to maintain body pools of these elements. Values obtained were somewhat lower than results reported by others, possibly due to inflated estimates of assimilation for the radioisotopes.},
	author = {Gist, {and} D. A. Crossley, Jr., C. S.},
	year = {1975},
	keywords = {CWT}
}

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