Chemical Defense of Mediterranean Sponges Aplysina cavernicola and Aplysina aerophoba

Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung - Section C Journal of Biosciences

Volumn 59, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 113-122

  Thoms, Carsten ^a   Wolff, Matthias ^b   Padmakumar, K ^c   Ebel, Rainer ^a   Proksch, Peter ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR TROPICAL MARINE RESEARCH ZMT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KERALA   (India)

Author keywords

Aplysina Sponges; Chemical Defense; Fish Feeding Assay

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; APLYSINA; APLYSINA AEROPHOBA; APLYSINA CAVERNICOLA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BLENNIUS; BLENNIUS SPHINX; CAVERNICOLA; PORIFERA;

EID: 1342288742     PISSN: 09395075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/znc-2004-1-222     Document Type: Article

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