Table 3.

Volume, carbon and pigment contents, and photosynthetic incorporation of ¹⁴C into the ciliate Strombidium rassoulzadegani and its food, Tetraselmis chui PLY429 (±standard deviation, where indicated).

	Volume μm3 cell−1	ngC cell−1	pg chla cell−1	pgC cell−1h−1	pgC pg chl−1h−1	d−1
S. rassoulzadegani	33,510 ± 2800	6.50 ± 0.53	137 ± 19	35.9 ± 6.6	0.26 ± 0.05	0.13 ± 0.02
T. chui PLY429	781 ± 199	0.112 ± 0.03	1.33 ± 0.72	0.67 ± 0.17	0.50 ± 0.13	0.14 ± 0.04