Abstract
Classical models of chemical signaling mechanisms which govern various aspects of the behavior, reproduction and development of animals in aqueous environments have been based largely upon well-characterized systems of chemoreception, chemotaxis and chemosensory behavior in response to concentration gradients of freely diffusible chemical inducers in aqueous or gaseous media (see, for example. Grant and Mackie, 1974; Shorey, 1976). In contrast, we recently have identified a mechanism of chemical signaling and induction governing the behavioral and developmental metamorphosis of certain planktonic molluscan larvae which is mediated, at least in part, by contact-dependent recognition of coval’ently complexed (or sequestered) non-diffusing algal metabolites.
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- Algal Extract
- Planktonic Larva
- Competent Larva
- Juvenile Abalone
- Algal Habitat
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Morse, D.E., Tegner, M., Duncan, H., Hooker, N., Trevelyan, G., Cameron, A. (1980). Induction of Settling and Metamorphosis of Planktonic Molluscan (Haliotis) Larvae. III: Signaling by Metabolites of Intact Algae is Dependent on Contact. In: Müller-Schwarze, D., Silverstein, R.M. (eds) Chemical Signals. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1027-3_6
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