Endocrine-like signaling in cnidarians: Current understanding and implications for ecophysiology

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 201-214

  Tarrant, Ann M ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 19944366268     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/45.1.201     Document Type: Conference Paper

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