Heart rate reflects osmostic stress levels in two introduced colonial ascidians Botryllus schlosseri and Botrylloides violaceus

Marine Biology

Volumn 154, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 805-811

  Dijkstra, Jennifer ^a   Dutton, Anthony ^a   Westerman, Erica ^b   Harris, Larry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOTIC FACTOR; COLONY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; INVERTEBRATE; MORTALITY; OSMOSIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SALINITY TOLERANCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREAT BAY ESTUARY; ITALY; NEW JERSEY; NORTH AMERICA; PORTSMOUTH [ENGLAND]; PORTSMOUTH HARBOUR; SOUTHERN EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; VENETO; VENEZIA [VENETO]; VENICE LAGOON; WESTERN EUROPE;

ASCIDIACEA; BOTRYLLOIDES VIOLACEUS; BOTRYLLUS SCHLOSSERI;

EID: 44649150107     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-008-0973-4     Document Type: Article

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