Diet-dependent UVAR and UVBR resistance in the high shore harpacticoid copepod Tigriopus brevicornis

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 276, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 299-303

  Davenport, John ^a   Healy, Aine ^a   Casey, Noreen ^a   Heffron, James J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Astaxanthin; Tigriopus; Ultra violet radiation

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; DIET; PIGMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; TOLERANCE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

COPEPODA; HARPACTICOIDA; INVERTEBRATA; TIGRIOPUS; TIGRIOPUS BREVICORNIS; VIOLA (ANGIOSPERM);

EID: 4444328005     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps276299     Document Type: Article

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