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SUBMITTER: Blewett TA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5740269 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Blewett Tamzin A TA Goss Greg G GG
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20171201 1868
Estuaries are environments enriched with dissolved nutrients such as amino acids. To date, marine arthropods are the only invertebrate group that have not been demonstrated to access this potentially important nutrient resource. Using <i>in vitro</i> gill perfusion techniques, we sought to investigate the ability of the green shore crab (<i>Carcinus maenas</i>) to take up the amino acid l-leucine directly from the water. Investigation of the concentration-dependent transport kinetics of radiolab ...[more]