Ontogenetic shifts in fusion-rejection thresholds in a colonial marine hydrozoan, Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 40-49

  Wilson, Alex C C ^a,b   Grosberg, Richard K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimera; Conspecific acceptance threshold; Germline parasitism; Kin recognition; Self non self recognition

Indexed keywords

CHIMERA; COLONIAL ORGANISM; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; KIN RECOGNITION; ONTOGENY;

HYDRACTINIA; HYDRACTINIA SYMBIOLONGICARPUS; HYDROZOA;

EID: 8744301083     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-004-0831-4     Document Type: Article

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