Comparative embryology of eleven species of stony corals (Scleractinia)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Okubo, Nami ^a,e,g,h   Mezaki, Takuma ^b   Nozawa, Yoko ^c   Nakano, Yoshikatsu ^d   Lien, Yi Ting ^e   Fukami, Hironobu ^f   Hayward, David C ^g   Ball, Eldon E ^g  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Japan   (Japan)

^c BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^g AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h TOKYO KEIZAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CORAL; DIPSASTRAEA SPECIOSA; ECHINOPHYLLIA ASPERA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOLOGY; FAVITES ABDITA; GALAXEA FASCICULARIS; GASTRULATION; GONIASTREA FAVULUS; HISTOLOGY; MONTIPORA HISPIDA; NONHUMAN; OULASTREA CRISPATA; PAVONA DECUSSATA; PHYMASTREA VALENCIENNESI; PLATYGYRA CONTORTA; PSEUDOSIDERASTREA TAYAMAI;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; GERM LAYERS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84893169606     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084115     Document Type: Article

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