Mushroom coral regeneration from a detached stalk

Coral Reefs

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 939-939

  Vizel, Maya ^a   Kramarsky Winter, Esti ^a   Loya, Yossi ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CORAL REEF; GROWTH RATE; MUSHROOM; POLYP; REGENERATION; SKELETON;

ANTHOZOA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGIIDAE;

EID: 70350616278     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-009-0496-6     Document Type: Article

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