Hydroides elegans

Harder T, Dobretsov S, Qian PY (2004) Waterborne polar macromolecules act as algal antifou-lants in the seaweed Ulva reticulata. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 274 133-141 Harder T, Qian PY (2000) Waterborne compounds from the green seaweed Ulva reticulata as inhibitive cues for larval attachment and metamorphosis in the polychaete Hydroides elegans. Biofouling 16 205-214... 

Lau, S. C. K. and Qian, P. Y., Phlorotannins and related compounds as larval settlement inhibitors of the tube-building polychaete Hydroides elegans, Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 159, 219, 1997. 

Beckmann M., Harder T., and Qian, P.Y., Induction of larval attachment and metamorphosis in the serpulid polychaete Hydroides elegans by dissolved free amino acids mode of action in laboratory bioassays, Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser, 190, 167, 1999. 

Walters, L. J., Hadfield, M. G., and del Carmen, K. A., The importance of larval choice and hydrodynamics in creating aggregations of Hydroides elegans (Polychaeta Serpulidae), Invert. Biol., 116, 102, 1997. 

Carpizo-Ituarte, E. and Hadfield, M. G., Stimulation of metamorphosis in the polychaete Hydroides elegans Haswell (Serpulidae), Biol. Bull., 194, 14, 1998. 

Bryan, P.J., Kreider, J.L., and Qian, P.Y., Settlement of the serpuhd polychaete Hydroides elegans (Haswell) on the arborescent bryozoan Bugula neritina (L.) evidence of a chemically mediated relationship, J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 220, 171, 1998. 

Hung OS, Lee OO, Thiyagarajan V, He H-P, Xu Y, Chung HC, Qiu J-W, Qian P-Y (2009) Characterization of cues from natural multi-species biofilms that induce larval attachment of the polychaete Hydroides elegans. Aquat Biol 4 253-262... 

Figure 14.1 Length scales of the settlement stages of fouling organisms. The image of the barnacle cypris larva (kindly provided by Prof A.S. Clare) shows the paired antennules (left) referred to in Figure 14.2. The image of the larva of Hydroides elegans was kindly provided by Dr B Nedved.

Unidentified water-soluble compotmds from the bryo-zoan Bugula neritina induce settlement and metamorphosis of the serpulid polychaete Hydroides elegans (Bryan, Kreider, and Qian, 1998). 

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