A morphological study of nonrandom senescence in a colonial urochordate

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 198, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 367-378

  Lauzon, Robert J ^a   Rinkevich, Baruch ^b   Patton, C W ^c   Weissman, Irving L ^d  

^a UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Israel)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; BOTRYLLUS SCHLOSSERI; GENETTA; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 0034053661     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1542692     Document Type: Article

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