Assessing anti-predatory chemical defences among ten eastern Mediterranean sponges

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1785-1790

  Sokolover, N ^a   Ilan, M ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; AQUACULTURE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CHEMICAL DEFENSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GASTROPOD; OMNIVORY; PALATABILITY; PERCIFORM; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPONGE;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST); MIDDLE EAST;

AMPHIMEDON CHLOROS; AXINELLA; AXINELLA POLYPOIDES; CHONDRILLA NUCULA; CRELLA CYATOPHORA; DIACARNUS ERYTHRAENUS; GASTROPODA; IRCINIA; NEGOMBATA MAGNIFICA; NIPHATES ROWI; PSAMMOCINIA; SARCOTRAGUS; STROMBUS; TETILLA SP.; THALASSOMA PAVO; THEONELLA; THEONELLA SWINHOEI;

EID: 36749090566     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315407057967     Document Type: Article

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