Mucous-mesh grazers (pelagic tunicates and thecosome pteropods) are common in oceanic
waters and efficiently capture, consume and repackage particles many orders of magnitude …

Between 2013 and 2020, a total of 27 distinct zooplankton taxa, encompassing both
holoplanktonic and meroplanktonic organisms spanning different classes and orders, were …

The pan-global marine appendicularian, Oikopleura dioica, shows considerable promise as
a candidate model organism for cross-disciplinary research ranging from chordate genetics …

Recent studies have demonstrated that plankton can be a key pathway for the uptake and
transfer of contaminants entering the marine environment up to top predators. The plankton …

Gelatinous zooplankton are increasingly recognized to play a key role in the ocean's
biological carbon pump. Appendicularians, a class of pelagic tunicates, are among the most …

To investigate whether particles are ingested or merely trapped in the house of the
appendicularian Oikopleura dioica, we developed a real‐time quantitative polymerase chain …

The clearance rates of co-occurring appendicularian species, Oikopleura longicauda and O.
fusiformis, in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, were investigated to evaluate and compare their roles in …

We describe different modes of prey rejection in a filter‐feeding appendicularian, Oikopleura
dioica. Nonselective prey rejection occurs by intermittent rejection through reversal of the …

Three aspects of the appendicularian O. dioica's ecophysiology were measured here: 1)
morphological parameters over a wide range of appendicularian sizes, including mature …

Appendicularians are abundant planktonic filter feeders that play a significant role in the
pelagic food web due to their high clearance rates. Their diet and feeding rates have …