Grazing-activated chemical defence in a unicellular marine alga

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6636, 1997, Pages 894-897

  Wolfe, Gordon V ^a   Steinke, Michael ^b   Kirst, Gunter O ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYL SULFIDE;

ACRYLATE; CHEMICAL DEFENCE; CHEMICAL DEFENCES; COCCOLITHOPHORE; DIMETHYLSULPHONIOPROPIONATE; DMSP; GRAZING; PHYTOPLANKTON; PROTOZOA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; OXYRRHIS MARINA;

EID: 0030764580     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/43168     Document Type: Article

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