Chemical defence & reproductive strategies
November 15, 1999
From: Sarah Priestley
Hi,
I'm a final year student and I'm doing my dissertation on dorid nudibranchs. Your pages are really useful but I wondered if you knew of any recent work that has been done and written in journals, especially about chemical defense and reproductive strategies.
Thanks for your help
Sarah
bgy7sep@leeds.ac.uk
Priestley, S., 1999 (Nov 15) Chemical defence & reproductive strategies. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/1525Dear Sarah,
There is a lot on the Forum on chemical defence. Have a look at the pages on Defensive glands and Nudibranch Defence for links to other sites. Be sure to look at the messages on each page as there is a lot of supplementary to be found there. Also use the Search the Forum button.
I've listed a couple of recent reviews below on chemical defence which would be worth reading. I'm afraid I don't know of any recent review on reproductive strategies but there is a good review on reproduction in Thompson & Brown (1984) of work in the preceding decade (pp 164-7).
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman.
•Avila,C (1992): A preliminary catalogue of natural substances of opisthobranch molluscs from western Mediterranean and near Atlantic. Scientia Marina 56(4): 373-382.
•Avila, C. (1995): Natural products of opisthobranch molluscs: a biological review.
Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review 33: 487-559.
•Thompson, T.E. & Brown, G.H. (1984) Biology of Opisthobranch Molluscs, Vol 2. Ray Society: London.
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