Adaptive visual metamorphosis in a deep-sea hydrothermal vent crab

Nature

Volumn 420, Issue 6911, 2002, Pages 68-70

  Jinks, Robert N ^a   Markley, Tara L ^a   Taylor, Elizabeth E ^a   Perovich, Gina ^b   Dittel, Ana I ^b   Epifanlo, Charles E ^b   Cronin, Thomas W ^c  

^a FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS;

WAVELENGTHS;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

VISUAL PIGMENT;

ADAPTATION; CRAB; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; LIFE HISTORY; METAMORPHOSIS; VISION;

ARTICLE; BLUE LIGHT; COMPOUND EYE; CRAB; CRUSTACEA; DEEP SEA; ECOSYSTEM; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; OPTICS; PLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; ENVIRONMENT; EYE; HEAT; LARVA; LIGHT; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; PLANKTON; RETINAL PIGMENTS; STEAM; VISION;

BYTHOGRAEA THERMYDRON; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 0037038358     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01144     Document Type: Article

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