Cnidarian internal stinging mechanism

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1659, 2009, Pages 1063-1067

  Schlesinger, Ami ^a,b   Zlotkin, Eliahu ^c   Kramarsky Winter, Esti ^a   Loya, Y ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b RUPPIN ACADEMIC CENTER   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Digestion; Internal stinging mechanism; Nematocyst; Sea anemone; Venom

Indexed keywords

CYST; DIGESTION; INVERTEBRATE; LYSIS; VENOM;

ACTINIARIA; ARTEMIA SALINA; CNIDARIA;

EID: 60049100679     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1586     Document Type: Article

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