Oh, and the strange pram bugs that occupy salp tests…never mind, you need to read them all. From Wordnik.com. [The Panda's Thumb: January 2006 Archives] Reference
Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 119 www. salp.pdx.edu. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Vanguard RSS] Reference
The salp: Nature's near-perfect little engine just got better. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
I am merely seeking enlightenment, not advocating salp culture. From Wordnik.com. [RealClimate] Reference
On the other hand, each salp of the chain has within it a true egg-cell. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work] Reference
A lone salp draws water into its front end and filters out particles with a fine mucus net. From Wordnik.com. [Livescience.com] Reference
This epifluorescent microscope image shows a salp filtering mesh: the best food-trapper in the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Livescience.com] Reference
(And, if you don't, try typing "salp carbon," or some variant, into Google Scholar and see what you find.). From Wordnik.com. [TreeHugger] Reference
Different salp species are found around the world and attention is now being paid to what effect they might have on global warming. From Wordnik.com. [EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] Reference
Obviously, the difficulties of widespread salp culture, in part by encouraging phytoplanton blooms with fertilisation, might well prove insuperable. From Wordnik.com. [RealClimate] Reference
The salp, a smallish, barrel-shaped organism that resembles a kind of streamlined jellyfish, gets everything it needs from the ocean waters to feed and propel itself. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
The original salp produced from the egg gives rise to many salps, which may either remain attached in a chain, or, breaking away from one another, may live separately. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work] Reference
The pram bug Phronima (bottom left, specifc gravity 1.046) gets its float on with a gelatinous house that it steals nefariously from a salp (bottom right, specific gravity 1.026). From Wordnik.com. [UnderwaterTimes.com News of the Underwater World] Reference
Each salp of the aggregate form contains within it an embryo receiving nutrition from the mother by a connection similar to the placenta by which the embryo of a mammal receives nourishment from the blood of the mother. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work] Reference
The solitary salp produces in its interior a little stolon or diverticulum which contains an outgrowth from the circulatory system, and this stolon gradually becomes pinched off into the members of the chain of the aggregate form. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work] Reference
It had been reasoned that the lower limit of particles captured by a salp was dictated by the size of the openings in the mesh (1.5 microns) In other words, particles smaller than the openings were expected to pass through the mesh. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
The salp, a 5-inch (13-centimeter) - long, barrel-shaped organism that. From Wordnik.com. [Livescience.com] Reference
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