Evolutionary genetics of allorecognition in the colonial hydroid Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus

Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2221-2240

  Grosberg, Richard K ^a   Levitan, Don R ^b   Cameron, Brenda B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allorecognition; Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus; transmission genetics

Indexed keywords

HYDRACTINIA SYMBIOLONGICARPUS; HYDROZOA;

ALLORECOGNITION; GENETICS; HYDROID; INTRASPECIFIC RELATIONSHIPS; KIN SELECTION; SESSILE SPECIES;

EID: 0030302091     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb03612.x     Document Type: Article

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