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SUBMITTER: Annibale FS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6361219 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Annibale Fabiane Santana FS de Sousa Verônica Thiemi Tsutae VTT de Sousa Carlos Eduardo CE Venesky Matthew D MD Rossa-Feres Denise de Cerqueira DC Nomura Fausto F Wassersug Richard J RJ
Biology open 20190114 1
In nature, tadpoles encounter food on substrates oriented at different angles (e.g. vertically along stems, horizontally on the bottom of the pond). We manipulated the orientation of food-covered surfaces to test how different orientations of surfaces affect tadpoles' feeding efficiency. We studied taxa that differed in the oral morphology of their larvae and position in the water column. We hypothesized that species would differ in their ability to graze upon surfaces at different orientations ...[more]