Epibiosis on eggs and brooding care in the burrowing crab Chasmagnathus granulatus (Brachyura:Varunidae): Comparison between mudflats and salt marshes

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 893-901

  Silva, Paola V ^a,b   Luppi, Tomás A ^a,b   Spivak, Eduardo D ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BROOD REARING; CILIATE; COLONIZATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRAB; EPIBIOSIS; FUNGUS; INCUBATION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MATERNAL CARE; MUDFLAT; SALTMARSH;

ARGENTINA; BUENOS AIRES [ARGENTINA]; MAR CHIQUITA LAGOON; SOUTH AMERICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRACHYURA; CHASMAGNATHUS GRANULATA; CILIOPHORA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); FUNGI; PERITRICHIA (CILIATES); SPARTINA; SPARTINA DENSIFLORA; VARUNIDAE;

EID: 34547520952     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315407056068     Document Type: Article

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