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Prey detection in a cruising copepod

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Section for Ocean Ecology and Climate, National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark1

National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark2

Small cruising zooplankton depend on remote prey detection and active prey capture for efficient feeding. Direct, passive interception of prey is inherently very inefficient at low Reynolds numbers because the viscous boundary layer surrounding the approaching predator will push away potential prey.

Yet, direct interception has been proposed to explain how rapidly cruising, blind copepods feed on non-motile phytoplankton prey. Here, we demonstrate a novel mechanism for prey detection in a cruising copepod, and describe how motile and non-motile prey are discovered by hydromechanical and tactile or, likely, chemical cues, respectively

Language: English
Publisher: The Royal Society
Year: 2012
Pages: 438-441
ISSN: 1744957x and 17449561
Types: Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.1073
ORCIDs: Kiørboe, Thomas

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