Chemical defense of the red tide dinoflagellate Karenia brevis against rotifer grazing

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1026-1035

  Kubanek, Julia ^a   Snell, Terry W ^a   Pirkle, Christen ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CHEMICAL DEFENSE; COEXISTENCE; DINOFLAGELLATE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GRAZING; INVERTEBRATE; RED TIDE; TOXIN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

BRACHIONUS IBERICUS; BRACHIONUS PLICATILIS; DINOPHYCEAE; KARENIA BREVIS; RHODOMONAS LENS; ROTIFERA;

EID: 34249715810     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2007.52.3.1026     Document Type: Article

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