Edit the description's bibliography (Lizard Island Field Guide)

Edit the description's bibliography


Animalia: species: Didemnum molle

References that assist with identification

  • Edgar, G. (2019). Tropical Marine Life of Australia New Holland Publishers, London.
  • Kott, P. (1982). Didemnid-algal symbioses: host species in the western Pacific with notes on the symbiosis. Micronesica, 18(1): 95-127. LIRS catalog number 10119.

Other references

  • Bakus, G.J. (1981). Chemical defense mechanisms on the Great Barrier Reef, Science, 211: 497-499. LIRS catalog number 41.
  • Bishop, D.G., J.R. Kenrick, J.H. Bayston, A.S. Macpherson and S.R. Johns (1980). Monolayer properties of chloroplast lipids, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 602: 248-259. LIRS catalog number 44.
  • Cox, G. (1986). Comparison of Prochloron from different hosts, I. Structural and ultrastructural characteristics, New Phytol., 104: 429-445. LIRS catalog number 214.
  • Cox, G. and D.M. Dwarte (1981). Freeze-etch ultrastructure of a Prochloron species - the symbiont of Didemnum molle, New Phytol., 88: 427-438. LIRS catalog number 68.
  • Griffiths, D.J. and T. Luong-Van (1983). Transfer of photosynthetically fixed carbon between the prokaryotic green alga Prochloron and its ascidian host, Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 34: 431-440. LIRS catalog number 105.
  • Luong-Van, T. and D.J. Griffiths (1983). In vivo absorption spectra for the prokaryotic algal symbionts in a range of didemnid ascidians of the Great Barrier Reef, Phycologia, 22(1): 93-95. LIRS catalog number 94.
  • Newman, L.J. (2002). A new euryleptid flatworm (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida) associated with a colonial ascidian from the Great Barrier Reef, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 48: 169-172. LIRS catalog number 739.
  • Olson, R.R. (1983). Ascidian-Prochloron symbiosis: the role of larval photoadaptations in midday larval release and settlement, Biological Bulletin, 165(1): 221-240. LIRS catalog number 53.
  • Olson, R.R. (1984). The life history and larval ecology of the ascidian-algal symbiosis Didemnum molle, Ph.D. thesis, Harvard University. LIRS catalog number 777.
  • Olson, R.R. (1985). The consequences of short-distance larval dispersal in a sessile marine invertebrate, Ecology, 66(1): 30-39. LIRS catalog number 153.
  • Olson, R.R. (1986). Light-enhanced growth of the ascidian Didemnum molle/ Prochloron sp. symbiosis, Marine Biology, 93: 437-442. LIRS catalog number 326.
  • Summons, R.E. (1981). Occurrence, structure and synthesis of 3-(N-methylamino) glutaric acid, an amino acid from Prochloron didemnii, Phytochemistry, 20(5): 1125-1127. LIRS catalog number 59.