Similar specificities of symbiont uptake by adults and larvae in an anemone model system for coral biology

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 217, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1613-1619

  Hambleton, Elizabeth A ^a,b   Guse, Annika ^a,c   Pringle, John R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anemone; Cnidarian; Coral reefs; Dinoflagellate; Planulae larvae; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL PHAGOCYTOSIS; DINOFLAGELLATE; LARVA; PHYSIOLOGY; SEA ANEMONE; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CYTOPHAGOCYTOSIS; DINOFLAGELLIDA; LARVA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEA ANEMONES; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84905389104     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: 14779145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.095679     Document Type: Article

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