Comparison between the Nereis diversicolor and Nereis virens marine worms in the transformation of ingested hydrocarbons

Franck Gilbert (1) , Gaston Desrosiers (2) , Stefan Hulth (3) , Georges Stora (1)

1 LOB - Laboratoire d'océanographie et de biogéochimie
2 ISMER - Institut des Sciences de la MER de Rimouski
3 Analytical and Marine Chemistry

A feeding experiment was conducted on the marine worm Nereis diversicolor to compare the fate of a hydrocarbon mixture during the gut passage in this species with the hydrocarbon breakdown process demonstrated for Nereis virens. Hydrocarbon dissolution/solubilization processes in the gut of N. diversicolor were found to have similar qualitative and quantitative importance in the hydrocarbon transformation as those observed in N. virens.

Mots clés: Feeding experiment; Hydrocarbon fate; Nereis diversicolor; Nereis virens

Domaines: Océanographie

Franck Gilbert, Gaston Desrosiers, Stefan Hulth, Georges Stora. Comparison between the Nereis diversicolor and Nereis virens marine worms in the transformation of ingested hydrocarbons. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK, 2001, vol. 81, pp. 885-886. ⟨10.1017/S0025315401004751⟩. ⟨hal-00761902⟩