Meeting the photosynthetic demand for inorganic carbon in an alga-invertebrate association: Preferential use of CO2 by symbionts in the giant clam Tridacna gigas

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1442, 2000, Pages 523-529

  Leggat, W ^a   Rees, T A V ^b   Yellowlees, D ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Dinoflagellate; Inorganic carbon; Photosynthesis; Symbiosis; Zooxanthellae

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE;

ALGA; CARBON DIOXIDE; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; INORGANIC CARBON; MOLLUSC; NUTRIENT USE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; ZOOXANTHELLA;

ALGA; ARTICLE; CLAM; HEMOLYMPH; INVERTEBRATE; PH; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; BIVALVIA; DINOPHYCEAE; EUKARYOTA; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA; TRIDACNA GIGAS;

EID: 0034615633     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1031     Document Type: Article

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