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A note on the laboratory culture of benthic foraminifera collected from nearshore region off Goa, India

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Title A note on the laboratory culture of benthic foraminifera collected from nearshore region off Goa, India
 
Creator Nigam, R.
Khare, N.
Koli, N.Y.
 
Subject Benthic foraminifera
nearshore region
 
Description A laboratory culture programme is established to extend credibility to foraminiferal-based techniques being used to generate the high-resolution proxy records for palaeoclimatic reconstruction. In order to obtain living specimen of foraminiferal species for laboratory culture experiments, a number of samples were analyzed from the nearshore region off Dias beach (Goa, India) which revealed the presence of 22 species. Among the living benthic foraminifera Rosalina leei was found in abundance and was used to establish a laboratory culture programme. The effect of different media (like plain sea water and Erdscheriber medium) and food on the growth of foraminiferal test is monitored initially. The results suggest that Erdscheriber medium is conducive for general growth and chamber formation. A further observation suggested that food is another governing factor for their growth in sea water. However, in case of Erdscheriber medium excess food supply retards the overall growth
 
Date 2006-10-24T04:23:22Z
2006-10-24T04:23:22Z
1996
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Journal of The Palaeontological Society of India, vol.41, 29-35p.
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/446
 
Language en
 
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Publisher The Palaeontological Society of India