Ecological roles for water-borne metabolites from Antarctic soft corals

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 161, Issue , 1997, Pages 133-144

  Slattery, Marc ^a,b   Hamann, Mark T ^a   McClintock, James B ^b   Perry, Tony L ^a   Puglisi, Melany P ^a   Yoshida, Wesley Y ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Allelochemicals; Antarctica; Antimicrobials; Predator deterrence; Soft corals

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; ANTIFOULING SUBSTANCE; CORAL; METABOLITES; PREDATOR DETERRENCE;

ANTARCTIC;

ALCYONACEA; ALCYONIUM PAESSLERI; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; GERSEMIA; GERSEMIA ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0031593007     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps161133     Document Type: Article

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