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Effects of Changes in Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Concentrations on Ventilation Rhythms in Onuphid Polychaetes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

R. Phillips Dales ,
Charlotte P. Mangum  and
Joseph C. Tichy
R. Phillips Dales
Affiliation:
Bedford College, University of London, N.W. I, and College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23185, U.S.A.
Charlotte P. Mangum
Affiliation:
Bedford College, University of London, N.W. I, and College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23185, U.S.A.
Joseph C. Tichy
Affiliation:
Bedford College, University of London, N.W. I, and College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23185, U.S.A.
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Spontaneous rhythmic activity in the lugworm Arenicola marina (L.) is believed to be under control of a pacemaker located in the ventral nerve cord and oesophageal plexus (Wells, 1937). Since the rhythmic component which often dominates the spontaneous behaviour of polychaete worms consists of movements resulting in irrigation of the tube or burrow, and thus ventilation of respiratory surfaces, pacemaker control of the rhythm differs strikingly from reflex control of ventilation in other animals.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , May 1970 , pp. 365 - 380
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1970

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