Allorecognition responses in the soft coral Parerythropodium fulvum fulvum from the Red Sea

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 197, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 191-201

  Frank, Uri ^a   Bak, Rolf P M ^b,c   Rinkevich, Baruch ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Israel)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alcyonacea; Coral; Histocompatibility; Intraspecific competition

Indexed keywords

PARERYTHROPODIUM FULVUM;

EID: 0030152109     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0022-0981(95)00153-0     Document Type: Article

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