Gastropod Urosalpinx: p H of Accessory Boring Organ while Boring
- 17 November 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 158 (3803) , 920-922
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.158.3803.920
Abstract
Recent development of a microelectrode has enabled the first continuous recording of the pH of the secretion of the normally functioning accessory boring organ of the shell-boring predatory snail Urosalpinx. The recording was made in an incomplete borehole in a glass-shell model. The minimum pH recorded was 3.8; hitherto the secretion had been considered neutral.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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