Are Rhodophyceae a dietary component for deep-sea holothurians?

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 347-348

  Buhring S I ^a   Koppelmann, R ^b   Christiansen, B ^b   Weikert, H ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; HOLOTHUROIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 0036553702     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315402005556     Document Type: Article

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