A comparative analysis of the upper thermal tolerance limits of eastern pacific porcelain crabs, genus Petrolisthes: Influences of latitude, vertical zonation, acclimation, and phylogeny

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 200-208

  Stillman, Jonathon H ^a,b   Somero, George N ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; HEAT TOLERANCE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROHABITAT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; RIBOSOMAL DNA; TEMPERATURE;

ACCLIMATION; CRAB; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LATITUDE; PHYLOGENY; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; CALIFORNIA; CHILE; HEAT; LINEAR MODELS; MEXICO; MORTALITY; OREGON; PACIFIC OCEAN; PANAMA; PHYLOGENY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PETROLISTHES;

EID: 0034130468     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/316738     Document Type: Article

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