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The adaptive value of larval behavior of a colonial ascidian
| Title: | The adaptive value of larval behavior of a colonial ascidian. |
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| Name(s): |
Hurlbut, C. J., creator Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Article | |
| Issuance: | single unit | |
| Date Issued: | 1993 | |
| Publisher: | Springer | |
| Extent: | 11 p. | |
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| Language(s): | English | |
| Identifier: | 3333206 (digitool), FADT3333206 (IID), fau:6282 (fedora), 10.1007/BF00346342 (doi) | |
| Note(s): |
Didemnum candidum Savigny, 1816 is an abundant member of the fouling community encrusting docks in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. In the laboratory, larvae of D. candidum are positively phototactic upon release, but become indifferent to the direction of light prior to settlement. In both the laboratory and the field, settlement is most abundant on shaded, downward-facing surfaces, the location where juvenile survival is greatest. The colonial ascidians Diplosoma listerianum Milne-Edwards, 1842 and Diplosoma sp. also settle abundantly on shaded undersurfaces in the field. This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available at http://www.springerlink.com and may be cited as: Hurlbut, C. J. (1993). The adaptive value of larval behavior of a colonial ascidian. Marine Biology 115(2), 253-262. Doi:10.1007/BF00346342 Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #907. |
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| Subject(s): |
Larvae--Behavior Ascidians Didemnum Diplosoma |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3333206 | |
| Links: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00346342 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | ©1993 Springer | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
