Waterborne cues from crabs induce thicker skeletons, smaller gonads and size-specific changes in growth rate in sea urchins

Marine Biology

Volumn 156, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1057-1071

  Selden, Rebecca ^a,b   Johnson, Amy S ^a   Ellers, Olaf ^a  

^a BOWDOIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CRAB; ECHINODERM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROWTH RATE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SIZE EFFECT; SKELETON;

CANCER BOREALIS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ECHINOIDA; ECHINOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS DROEBACHIENSIS;

EID: 67349163606     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-009-1150-0     Document Type: Article

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