Rate and process of tube production by the deep-sea hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 148, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 135-143

  Gaill, Françoise ^a   Shillito, Bruce ^a   Ménard, Frédéric ^a   Goffinet, Gérard ^b   Childress, James J ^c  

^a STATION DE RADIOASTRONOMIE DE NANÇAY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chitin production; Exoskeleton; Growth rate; Vestimentiferan

Indexed keywords

RIFTIA PACHYPTILA; VESTIMENTIFERA;

CHITIN; HYDROTHERMAL ORGANISMS; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; TUBE DWELLERS; TUBE GROWTH; TUBE PRODUCTION; TUBEWORM;

EID: 0030617754     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps148135     Document Type: Article

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