The mud flat anemone-cockle association: Mutualism in the intertidal zone?

Oecologia

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 131-137

  Mouritsen, Kim N ^a   Poulin, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Anthopleura aureoradiata; Austrovenus stutchburyi; Parasite avoidance; Tidal gradient; Trematode infection

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MUTUALISM; TIDE;

ACTINIARIA; ANEMONE; ANIMALIA; ANTHOPLEURA; ANTHOPLEURA AUREORADIATA; ANTHOZOA; AUSTROVENUS; AUSTROVENUS STUTCHBURYI; BIVALVIA; CURTUTERIA AUSTRALIS; DIGENEA; MOLLUSCA; TREMATODA; VENERIDAE;

EID: 0037353358     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-003-1183-x     Document Type: Article

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