Benefit of pulsation in soft corals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 8978-8983

  Kremien, Maya ^a,b   Shavit, Uri ^c   Mass, Tali ^a,d   Genin, Amatzia ^a  

^a The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Mass balance; Mass transfer coefficient; Red Sea

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CNIDARIA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; CORAL REEF; FILTRATION; HETEROXENIA FUSCESCENS; LABORATORY; LOCOMOTION; MARINE SPECIES; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; WATER FLOW;

DIFFUSION; MASS BALANCE; MASS TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; RED SEA;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CARBON DIOXIDE; EXTREMITIES; INDIAN OCEAN; MOVEMENT; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RHEOLOGY; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WATER MOVEMENTS;

ALCYONACEA; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; CNIDARIA; HETEROXENIA FUSCESCENS; SCLERACTINIA; XENIIDAE;

EID: 84878438783     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1301826110     Document Type: Article

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