The Nautilus Siphuncle as an Ion Pump
| dc.contributor.author | Mangum, Charlotte P. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Towle, David W. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2008-02-17T01:14:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2008-02-17T01:14:29Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1982-07 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The siphuncle, which is believed to empty the newly formed chambers of the shell by a process involving the active transport of NaCl, has the metabolic, enzymatic, and morphological features of a transporting epithelium. It is capable of removing monovalent ions from solutions containing only Na+ and no Cl- or divalent ions, or only Cl- and no Na+ or divalent ions, indicating no obligatory coupling. The Na+ and Cl- are removed from native cameral fluid at approximately the same ratio. The levels of K + and the divalent ions are also lowered, but at slightly different rates. Neither H+ nor NH1 accumulate in cameral fluid to an appreciable extent. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Mangum CP, Towle DW. 1982. The Nautilus siphuncle as an ion pump. Pac Sci 36(3): 273-282. | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0030-8870 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/460 | |
| dc.language.iso | en-US | |
| dc.publisher | University of Hawai'i Press | |
| dc.title | The Nautilus Siphuncle as an Ion Pump | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text |