The Respiration of Nematodes of the Alimentary Tract

Autor: Davey, D. G.
Zdroj: The Journal of Experimental Biology; April 1938, Vol. 15 Issue: 2 p217-224, 8p
Abstrakt: Because of their peculiar habitat, tacitly assumed to have an oxygen content small enough to be negligible, the metazoan parasites living in the alimentary canal of various animals have long been the subjects of respiratory studies. The work of the earlier investigators reached its culmination in Weinland’s animal fermentation theory, put forward to explain the anaerobic existence of Ascaris lumbricoides and A. megalocephala. The fundamentals of the theory are embodied in the well-known equation
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