On the run: Free-living mushroom corals avoiding interaction with sponges

Coral Reefs

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 455-459

  Hoeksema, B W ^a   de Voogd, N J ^a  

^a NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competition; Interspecific aggression; Mobility; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ANTHOZOA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; CALLYSPONGIA; FUNGIIDAE; HAPLOSCLERIDA; HELIOFUNGIA;

EID: 84860361951     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-011-0856-x     Document Type: Note

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