Differences in associated crustacean fauna and seasonality of sexual reproduction between two color morphs of the photosymbiotic ascidian Didemnum molle (Ascidiacea: Didemnidae)

Pacific Science

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 309-316

  Fukuda, Takumi ^a   Hirose, Euichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR MORPH; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CRUSTACEAN; FAUNA; SEASONALITY; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CRUSTACEA; DIDEMNIDAE; DIDEMNUM;

EID: 45749139221     PISSN: 00308870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2984/1534-6188(2008)62[309:DIACFA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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