Solar powered seaslugs - Mutualistic symbiosis of aeolid nudibranchia (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia) with Symbiodinium

Symbiosis

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 227-250

  Burghardt, Ingo ^a   Evertsen, Jussi ^b   Johnsen, Geir ^b   Wägele, Heike ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Irradiance; Mutualism; Nudibranchia; Photosynthesis; Phyllodesmium briareum; Pteraeolidia ianthina; Pulse Amplitude Modulated fluorometry; Symbiodinium; Symbiosis; Zooxanthellae

Indexed keywords

MUTUALISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SYMBIOSIS; ZOOXANTHELLA;

ALCYONACEA; ANTHOZOA; BRIAREUM; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; DINOPHYCEAE; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; NUDIBRANCHIA; OPISTHOBRANCHIA; PHYLLODESMIUM; SYMBIODINIUM;

EID: 16244419064     PISSN: 03345114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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