Respiration rates of free-living marine nematodes in the subtidal coarse-sand habitat of Otsuchi Bay, Northeastern Honshu, Japan

Zoological Science

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 969-973

  Kim, Dongsung ^a   Shirayama, Yoshihisa ^b  

^a Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESACANTHION; METACHROMADORA SP.; MONOPOSTHIA; NEMATODA; POLYGASTROPHORA; SYMPLOCOSTOMA; THERISTUS;

EID: 0035539629     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.18.969     Document Type: Article

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