Transmission of cyanobacterial symbionts during embryogenesis in the coral reef ascidians Trididemnum nubilum and T. clinides (didemnidae, ascidiacea, chordata)

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 222, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 63-73

  Kojima, Aoi ^a   Hirose, Euichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; CORAL REEF; CYANOBACTERIUM; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; HISTOLOGY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; SYMBIONT;

ANTHOZOA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CHORDATA; CYANOBACTERIA; DIDEMNIDAE; PROCHLORON; SYNECHOCYSTIS; TRIDIDEMNUM;

EID: 84858609826     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/BBLv222n1p63     Document Type: Article

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