The uptake of colloidal melanin from seawater by marine bivalves

Marine Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 543-548

  Tack, Jurgen Frans ^a   Polk, Philip ^b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bivalves; Dissolved organic carbon (DOC); Food uptake

Indexed keywords

BIVALVIA;

COLLOIDS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; MELANIN;

INDIAN OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 0030449175     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.1996.tb00526.x     Document Type: Article

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