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Interactions between shear rates and biofilms affecting exploratory behaviour by cyprids ofElminius modestus (Cirripedia)

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The behaviour ofElrninius modestur Darwin cyprids suggests interaction between surface bacterial films acclimated to contrasting shear regimes and the range of shear rates over which observations were made. Exploratory behaviour is encouraged by filmed surfaces rather than biologically clean surfaces. Increasing shear rates encourage attachment to all surfaces, but cyprids detach from high-shear-acclimated films less often than from either low-shear-acclimated films, or clean surfaces. Furthermore, numbers of attaching cyprids are consistently lower on low-shear-acclimated films than on high-shear films.

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Neal, A.L., Simões, F.N. & Yule, A.B. Interactions between shear rates and biofilms affecting exploratory behaviour by cyprids ofElminius modestus (Cirripedia). Mar. Biol. 127, 241–246 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00942109

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