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Physical properties of the tunic in the pinkish-brown salp Pegea confoederata (Tunicata: Thaliacea)

BACKGROUND: Invisibility in the water column is a crucial strategy for gelatinous zooplanktons in avoiding detection by visual predators, especially for animals distributed in the euphotic zone during the daytime; i.e., surface dwellers that do not undergo diel vertical migration. Salps, a member of...

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Autores principales: Sakai, Daisuke, Kakiuchida, Hiroshi, Nishikawa, Jun, Hirose, Euichi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5896079/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29682316
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40851-018-0091-1