Fluorescent pigments in corals are photoprotective

Nature

Volumn 408, Issue 6814, 2000, Pages 850-853

  Salih, Anya ^a   Larkum, Anthony ^a   Cox, Guy ^a   Kühl, Michael ^b   Hoegh Guldberg, Ove ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CORAL; LIGHT INTENSITY; PIGMENT; TOLERANCE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALGA; ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; COELENTERATE; HEAT STRESS; LIGHT; LIGHT DAMAGE; LIGHT REFRACTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; CNIDARIA; FLUORESCENCE; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION-PROTECTIVE AGENTS; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 0034649665     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35048564     Document Type: Article

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