Ultraviolet-B radiation stimulates shikimate pathway-dependent accumulation of mycosporine-like amino acids in the coral Stylophora pistillata despite decreases in its population of symbiotic dinoflagellates

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1667-1682

  Shick, J M ^a   Romaine Lioud, S ^b   Ferrier Pages C ^b   Gattuso, J P ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b CENTRE SCIENTIFIQUE DE MONACO   (Monaco)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CORAL; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIONT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ACROPORA; ALGAE; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; DINOPHYCEAE; INVERTEBRATA; RICKETTSIA SP. PAR; SERIATOPORA HYSTRIX; STYLOPHORA PISTILLATA;

EID: 0032697506     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1999.44.7.1667     Document Type: Article

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