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Ascidian cannibalism correlates with larval behavior and adult distribution

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Date Issued:
1988
Title: Ascidian cannibalism correlates with larval behavior and adult distribution.
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Name(s): Young, Craig M., creator
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Article
Issuance: single unit
Date Issued: 1988
Publisher: Elsevier
Extent: 19 p.
Physical Description: pdf
Language(s): English
Identifier: 3353805 (digitool), FADT3353805 (IID), fau:6623 (fedora), 10.1016/0022-0981(88)90068-8 (doi)
Note(s): In the San Juan Islands, Washington, solitary ascidians that occur in dense monospecific aggregations demonstrate gregarious settlement as larvae, whereas species that occur as isolated individuals do not. All gregarious species reject their own eggs and larvae as food, but nongregarious species consume conspecific eggs and larvae. Moreover, the rejection mechanism is species-specific in some cases.
The final published version of this manuscript is available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00220981 and may be cited as: Young, C. M. (1988). Ascidian cannibalism correlates with larval behavior and adult distribution. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 117(1), 9-26. doi:10.1016/0022-0981(88)90068-8
Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #614.
Subject(s): Ascidians
Sea squirts
Cannibalism in animals
Larvae--Behavior
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3353805
Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0022-0981(88)90068-8
Restrictions on Access: ©1988 Elsevier Ltd.
Host Institution: FAU