Contraction and Stiffness Changes in Collagenous Arm Ligaments of the Stalked Crinoid Metacrinus rotundus (Echinodermata)

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 206, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 4-12

  Motokawa, Tatsuo ^a   Shintani, Osamu ^a   Birenheide, Rüdiger ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHINODERM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; CRINOIDEA; ECHINODERMATA; ISOCRINIDAE; METACRINUS ROTUNDUS;

EID: 1242344028     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1543193     Document Type: Article

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