Growing with the flow: On the maintenance and malleability of colony form in the hydroid Hydractinia

American Naturalist

Volumn 147, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 667-691

  Dudgeon, Steven R ^a   Buss, Leo W ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELAGATIS; HYDRACTINIA; LONCHOCARPUS GLAUCIFOLIUS; HYDROIDA;

COLONIAL ANIMAL; COLONY FORM;

EID: 0030456423     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/285874     Document Type: Article

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