Effects of low salinity on metamorphosis in estuarine colonial ascidians

Invertebrate Biology

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 433-444

  Vázquez, Elsa ^a,b   Young, Craig M ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Larvae; Mortality; Settlement; Tunicata

Indexed keywords

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; ECTEINASCIDIA TURBINATA; EUDISTOMA HEPATICUM; EUDISTOMA OLIVACEUM; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 0034358377     PISSN: 10778306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7410.2000.tb00113.x     Document Type: Article

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