Selected Publications: 1971 - 1994:

Fankboner, P. V. 1994. Process for producing pearls in abalone and other shell-bearing molluska and nucleus used therewith. U. S. Patent No. 5,347,951. 1-25pp. (33 figures; 56 claims).

Fankboner, P. V. & R. G. B. Reid. 1990. Nutrition in giant clams (Tridacnidae). In: The Bivalvia, pp. 191-205. Edited by: B. Morton. University of Hong Kong Press, Hong Kong.

Fankboner, P. V. & J. L. Cameron. 1985. Seasonal atrophy of the visceral organs in a sea cucumber. Can. J. Zool. 63: 2888-2892.

Fankboner, P. V. & R. G. B. Reid. 1981. Mass expulsion of zooxanthellae by heat-stressed reef corals: a source of food for giant clams? Experientia 37: 251-252.

Fankboner, P. V. 1978. Self-suturing by a synaptid sea cucumber (Holothuroidea: Echinodermata). Experientia 34: 729-730.

Fankboner, P. V. 1978. Suspension feeding mechanisms of the armored sea cucumber Psolus chitinoides Clark. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 31: 11-25.

Fankboner, P. V. & M. E. De Burgh. 1977. Diurnal exudation of 14C-labelled compounds by the large Kelp Macrocystis integrifolia Bory. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 28: 151-162.

Fankboner, P. V. 1971. The ciliary currents associated with feeding, digestion, and sediment removal in Adula (botula) falcata Gould 1851. Biol Bull. 140(2): 28-45.

Fankboner, P. V. 1971. Intracellular digestion of symbiontic zooxanthellae by host amoebocytes in giant clams (Bivalvia; Tridacnidae), with a note on the nutritional role of the hypertrophied siphonal epidermis. Biol. Bull. 141(2): 222-234.





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