Host-finding behaviour and navigation capabilities of symbiotic zooxanthellae

Coral Reefs

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 201-207

  Pasternak, Zohar ^a,b   Blasius, Bernd ^c   Abelson, Avigdor ^b   Achituv, Yair ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Algal acquisition; Chemotaxis; Coral reef; Flow; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ALGA; CHEMOTAXIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; SOFT CORAL; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR; SYMBIOSIS;

ALCYONACEA; ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; DINOPHYCEAE; HETEROXENIA FUSCESCENS;

EID: 33646510559     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-005-0085-2     Document Type: Article

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