Metamorphic processes in the soft corals heteroxenia fuscescens and xenia umbellata: The effect of protein kinase c activators and inhibitors

Invertebrate Reproduction and Development

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 35-45

  Henningi, Gabriele ^a   Hofmann, Dietrich K ^b   Yahu, Yehuda Bena ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Metamorphosis; Octocorallia; Planulae; Red sea; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031873734     PISSN: 07924259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07924259.1998.9652351     Document Type: Article

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