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On the regulation and maintenance of algal numbers in zooxanthellae-coelenterate symbiosis, with a Note on the nutritional relationship in Anemonia sulcata

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

D. L. Taylor
D. L. Taylor
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Department of Zoology, University College of Swanseacor1corresp
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The regulation of total algal numbers in the symbiosis involving Anemonia sulcata and a marine dinoflagellate has been investigated in a series of experiments designed to test the effects of starvation and/or darkness on the host and its alga. The gross effect of these conditions (either separately or in combination) is detectable as a generalized weight loss in the symbiotic system. An electronmicroscopical study has shown that this weight loss can be directly related to changes in the ultrastructural morphology of both Anemonia and its symbionts. The significance of these findings is discussed in relation to current knowledge of the nutritional aspects of algal—invertebrate symbiosis.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 49 , Issue 4 , November 1969 , pp. 1057 - 1065
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1969

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