Environmental control of phase transition and polyp survival of a massive-outbreaker jellyfish

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Prieto, Laura ^a   Astorga, Diana ^a   Navarro, Gabriel ^a   Ruiz, Javier ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS MARINAS DE ANDALUCÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTYLORHIZA TUBERCULATA; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EUTROPHICATION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; JELLYFISH; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NONHUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION REGULATION; SALINITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIFE CYCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

COTYLORHIZA TUBERCULATA; SCYPHOZOA;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; SALINITY; SCYPHOZOA; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78149482534     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013793     Document Type: Article

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