Nutritive phagocyte incubation chambers provide a structural and nutritive microenvironment for germ cells of Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis, the green sea urchin

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 209, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 31-48

  Walker, Charles W ^a   Harrington, Laura M ^a   Lesser, Michael P ^a   Fagerberg, Wayne R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHINODERM; GERM CELL; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY;

ECHINOIDEA; LYTECHINUS VARIEGATUS; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS DROEBACHIENSIS;

EID: 23944496558     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3593140     Document Type: Article

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