Site-specific and ontogenetic variations in nutrition of mussels (Bathymodiolus sp.) from the Lucky Strike hydrothermal vent field, mid-atlantic ridge

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 334-343

  Trask, Jennifer L ^a   Van Dover, Cindy Lee ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE RATIO; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; NUTRITION; PRODUCTIVITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE;

ANIMALIA; BATHYMODIOLUS; BATHYMODIOLUS SP.; INVERTEBRATA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033029920     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1999.44.2.0334     Document Type: Article

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