Sequestration of dietary alkaloids by the spongivorous marine mollusc Tylodina perversa

Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung - Section C Journal of Biosciences

Volumn 58, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 426-432

  Thoms, Carsten ^a   Ebel, Rainer ^a   Hentschel, Ute ^b   Proksch, Peter ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemical Ecology; Marine Natural Products; Sponge Opisthobranch Interactions

Indexed keywords

ALKALOIDS; ANIMALS; APLYSIA; BIOMASS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DIET; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEMALE; ISOXAZOLES; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLLUSCA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OVUM;

APLYSINA; APLYSINA CAVERNICOLA; CAVERNICOLA; MOLLUSCA; OPISTHOBRANCHIA; TYLODINA PERVERSA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037970348     PISSN: 09395075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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