The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 7, 693-697,
Copyright © 1925 by The Rockefeller University Press
THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF pH AND CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION IN DETERMINING THE CESSATION OF CILIARY MOVEMENT IN ACIDIFIED SEA WATER
Charlotte Haywood 1
1 From the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, the Department of Physiology Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, and the Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
The length of time that cilia from the gills of Mylilus continue to beat in acidified sea water depends to some extent on the pH of the solution but to a greater extent on its carbon dioxide tension.
Accepted on April 17, 1925