Host specialisation in an unusual symbiosis: European bitterlings spawning in freshwater mussels

Oikos

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 539-545

  Reynolds, John D ^a   Debuse, Valerie J ^a   Aldridge, David C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BITTERLING; HOST USE; MUSSEL; SPAWNING; SYMBIOSIS;

ANODONTA ANATINA; ANODONTA CYGNEA; BIVALVIA; RHODEUS SERICEUS; UNIO PICTORUM; UNIO TUMIDUS;

EID: 0030617834     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3545615     Document Type: Article

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