Mycosporine-like amino acid content in four species of sea anemones in the genus Anthopleura reflects phylogenetic but not environmental or symbiotic relationships

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 203, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 315-330

  Shick, J Malcolm ^a   Dunlap, Walter C ^b   Pearse, John S ^c   Pearse, Vicki B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

ACTINIARIA; ALGAE; ANEMONE; ANIMALIA; ANTHOPLEURA; ANTHOPLEURA ARTEMISIA; ANTHOPLEURA ELEGANTISSIMA; ANTHOPLEURA SOLA; ANTHOPLEURA XANTHOGRAMMICA; ANTHOZOA; ARTEMISIA; DINOPHYCEAE; PORPHYRA;

EID: 0036960532     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1543574     Document Type: Article

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