Poison arrowworms: a tetrodotoxin venom in the marine phylum Chaetognatha

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 249-256

  Thuesen, Erik V ^a   Kogure, Kazuhiro ^a   Hashimoto, Kanehisa ^a   Nemoto, Takahisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bioassay; Chaetognath; Predation; Tetrodotoxin; Venom; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001266036     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0022-0981(88)90030-5     Document Type: Article

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