'Cup cell disease' in the colonial tunicate Botryllus schlosseri

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 77-84

  Moiseeva, Elisabeth ^a   Rabinowitz, Claudette ^a   Yankelevich, Irena ^a   Rinkevich, Baruch ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ascidians; Botryllus; Disease; Haplosporidia; Mariculture

Indexed keywords

MARICULTURE; PARASITIC DISEASE; PROTIST;

ASCIDIACEA; BOTRYLLUS; BOTRYLLUS SCHLOSSERI; HAPLOSPORIDIA; PROTISTA;

ANIMAL; AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; HAPLOSPORIDIA; HISTOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; UNITED STATES; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALS; AQUACULTURE; CALIFORNIA; HAPLOSPORIDA; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 5444269302     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao060077     Document Type: Article

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