Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/6Z21gR Nutrition in the Lower Metazoa Proceedings of a Meeting Held at The University of Caen, France, 11-13 September 1979 By: D. C. Smith Publisher: Pergamon Print ISBN: 9780080259048, 0080259049 eText ISBN: 9781483145723, 1483145727 Copyright year: 1980 Format: PDF Available from $ 31.95 USD SKU 9781483145723 Nutrition in the Lower Metazoa contains the proceedings of a meeting held at the University of Caen, France on September 11-13, 1979. Organized into 14 chapters, this book begins with a discussion of the phagocytosis in Polycelis tenuis and adaptational aspects in feeding in freshwater triclads. Subsequent chapters explore selection in sponge feeding processes; nutrition in symbiotic Turbellaria; some effects of diet on the biology of the rotifers; and the role of nutrition in the establishment of the green hydra symbiosis. The phosphorus economy of the green hydra symbiosis and the nutrition of marine sponges are also explained.