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The B Vitamins Nicotinamide (B(3)) and Riboflavin (B(2)) Stimulate Metamorphosis in Larvae of the Deposit-Feeding Polychaete Capitella teleta: Implications for a Sensory Ligand-Gated Ion Channel

Marine sediments can contain B vitamins, presumably incorporated from settled, decaying phytoplankton and microorganisms associated with decomposition. Because B vitamins may be advantageous for the energetically intensive processes of metamorphosis, post-metamorphic growth, and reproduction, we tes...

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Autores principales: Burns, Robert T., Pechenik, Jan A., Biggers, William J., Scavo, Gia, Lehman, Christopher
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4229104/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25390040
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0109535