Biology of a "babysitting" symbiosis in brittle stars: Analysis of the interactions between Ophiomastix venosa and Ophiocoma scolopendrina

Invertebrate Biology

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 385-395

  Fourgon, Didier ^a   Jangoux, Michel ^a,b,c   Eeckhaut, Igor ^b,c  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^c Institut Halieutique et des Sciences Marines   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

Commensalisms; Echinoderm; Ophiuroid; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ECHINODERMATA; OPHIOCOMA SCOLOPENDRINA; OPHIUROIDEA;

EID: 37149047358     PISSN: 10778306     EISSN: 17447410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7410.2007.00108.x     Document Type: Article

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