Freshwater sponge gemmules survive months of anoxia

Invertebrate Biology

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-8

  Reiswig, Henry M ^a   Miller, Tanya L ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cold tolerance; Dormancy; Hatching; Respiration; Spongillidae

Indexed keywords

EPHYDATIA MUELLERI; SPONGILLIDAE;

EID: 0032221642     PISSN: 10778306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3226846     Document Type: Article

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