What Hydra can teach us about chemical ecology - how a simple, soft organism survives in a hostile aqueous environment

International Journal of Developmental Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 6-8, 2012, Pages 605-611

  Rachamim, Tamar ^a   Sher, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chemical ecology; Hydra; Phospholipase A2; ShK domain

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; PROTEIN; TOXIN; VENOM;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOME; CELL TYPE; CHEMICAL ECOLOGY; CNIDARIA; CORAL; CORAL REEF; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HYDRA; JELLYFISH; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SPECIES; NEMATOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; SEA ANEMONE; SESSILE SPECIES; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; CNIDARIAN VENOMS; HYDRA; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOSPHOLIPASES A2;

ACTINIARIA; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; CNIDARIA; HYDRA; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 84864430530     PISSN: 02146282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1387/ijdb.113474tr     Document Type: Review

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