Seasonality of sexual reproduction in three photosymbiotic Trididemnum species (Didemnidae: Ascidiacea: Tunicata) in a subtropical sea grass bed

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 979-982

  Hirose, Euichi ^a   Kojima, Aoi ^a   Nogami, Jun ^a   Teruya, Katsuya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; FECUNDITY; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEAGRASS MEADOW; SEASONALITY; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; SUBTROPICAL REGION; SYMBIOSIS; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ASCIDIACEA; DIDEMNIDAE; TRIDIDEMNUM; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 34547513533     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315407057219     Document Type: Article

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