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News Release 10-137
The Jellyfish-like Salp: Most Efficient Filter-Feeder in the Deep, Scientists Discover
Role extends to removing carbon dioxide from upper ocean and atmosphere
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A whorl of salps graces the depths of the undersea world.
Credit: Kelly Sutherland and Larry Madin, WHOI
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Salps drift, sometimes in long chains, in the open ocean. There they are the sea's most efficient filter-feeders, grazing on food particles from large to small.
Credit: Kelly Sutherland; Larry Madin; Roman Stocker, WHOI/MIT
Mid-ocean salps are stained with harmless red dye; scientists learn about their food intake.
Credit: Kelly Sutherland and Larry Madin, WHOI
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Lone salp--one of the ocean's most efficient filter-feeders--consumes particles.
Credit: Kelly Sutherland and Larry Madin, WHOI
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Row of salps drifting through the twilight mid-ocean waters with a small fish.
Credit: Kelly Sutherland and Larry Madin, WHOI
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Salps float through the ocean's sunlit surface waters.
Credit: Kelly Sutherland and Larry Madin, WHOI
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Epifluorescent microscope image of salp filtering mesh: the best food-trapper in the sea.
Credit: Kelly Sutherland and Larry Madin, WHOI
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