Ferritin crystals in the gut caeca of a deep-sea hydrothermal vent stegocephalid (Crustacea: Amphipoda)

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 269-272

  Moore, P G ^a   Rainbow, P S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPODA; CRUSTACEA; SERPENTES; STEGOCEPHALIDAE; STELEUTHERA;

EID: 0031056346     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0025315400033968     Document Type: Article

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