Acid water interferes with salamander-green algae symbiosis during early embryonic development

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 470-480

  Bianchini, Kristin ^a   Tattersall, Glenn J ^b   Sashaw, Jessica ^a   Porteus, Cosima S ^a   Wright, Patricia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; FRESH WATER; OXYGEN;

ACID WATER; AMMONIA; AMPHIBIAN; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GREEN ALGA; MUTUALISM; OXYGEN; PH; POLLUTION EFFECT; SYMBIOSIS;

AMBYSTOMA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHEMISTRY; GREEN ALGA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SYMBIOSIS;

AMBYSTOMA; AMMONIA; ANIMALS; CHLOROPHYTA; FRESH WATER; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ONTARIO; OVUM; OXYGEN; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAE; AMBYSTOMA MACULATUM; CHLOROPHYTA; OOPHILA AMBLYSTOMATIS; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 84865462829     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/667407     Document Type: Article

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