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A New Type of Heart Mechanism in the Invertebrates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

A. C. Heron
A. C. Heron
Affiliation:
CSIRO Division of Fisheries and Oceanography, P.O. Box 21, Cronulla, N.S.W., 2230 Australia
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The tunicate heart has been extensively studied, with particular recent emphasis on the physiology of heart reversal (see Krijgsman (1956) and Kriebel (1968) for reviews). The salp heart, however, has received much less attention (Schultze, 1901; Nicolai, 1908), mainly because of the difficulty of maintaining this delicate marine animal in the laboratory. Thus the structure and function of the salp heart has been assumed to be similar to that of the sessile tunicates (Ihle, 1935; Berrill, 1950).

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 53 , Issue 2 , May 1973 , pp. 425 - 428
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1973

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