The red and the black: Bioluminescence and the color of animals in the deep sea

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 234-246

  Johnsen, Sönke ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CRYPSIS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 19944387281     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/45.2.234     Document Type: Conference Paper

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