Ctenophore population recruits entirely through larval reproduction in the central Baltic Sea

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 809-812

  Jaspers, Cornelia ^a   Haraldsson, Matilda ^b   Bolte, Sören ^c   Reusch, Thorsten B H ^c   Thygesen, Uffe H ^a   Kiørboe, Thomas ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comb jelly; Mertensia ovum; Paedogenesis; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

EGG PRODUCTION; EUKARYOTE; GROWTH RATE; LARVA; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MORTALITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS);

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

CTENOPHORA (COELENTERATES); MERTENSIA OVUM;

EID: 84866715524     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0163     Document Type: Article

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