Escape response of planktonic protists to fluid mechanical signals

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 214, Issue , 2001, Pages 67-78

  Jakobsen, Hans Henrik ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Marine Biological Section   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acartia tonsa; Balanion; Ciliates; Dinoflagellates; Escape behaviour; Jumping; Mesodinium; Strobilidium; Temora longicornis

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; PROTIST;

ACARTIA TONSA; BALANION; BALANION COMATUM; CILIOPHORA; COPEPODA; DINOPHYCEAE; INVERTEBRATA; MESODINIUM; MESODINIUM PULEX; PROTISTA; PULEX; STROBILIDIUM; STROBILIDIUM SP.; TEMORA LONGICORNIS;

EID: 0035953438     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps214067     Document Type: Article

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