Vestimentiferan on a whale fall

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 116-119

  Feldman, Robert A ^a,c   Shank, Timothy M ^a   Black, Michael B ^a   Baco, Amy R ^b   Smith, Craig R ^b   Vrijenhoek, Robert C ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c DIVERSA CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCASS; CHEMOSYNTHESIS; COLD SEEP; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; TUBEWORM; WHALE;

(EAST); PACIFIC;

ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CETACEA; ESCARPIA SPICATA; INVERTEBRATA; POGONOPHORA; VESTIMENTIFERA;

EID: 0032051866     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1543041     Document Type: Article

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