Simultaneous Time Resolution of the Emission Spectra of Fluorescent Proteins and Zooxanthellar Chlorophyll in Reef-building Corals

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 515-523

  Gilmore, Adam M ^a   Larkum, Anthony W D ^b   Salih, Anya ^b   Itoh, Shigeru ^c   Shibata, Yutaka ^c   Bena, Chiaki ^d   Yamasaki, Hideo ^d   Papina, Marina ^e   Van Woesik, Robert ^f  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^e RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^f Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLL A; FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PHOTOPROTEIN;

ALGA; ANALYTIC METHOD; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; FORSTER RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETICS; LIGHT SCATTERING; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYSTEM II; SYMBIONT; ZOOXANTHELLAE; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

ACROPORA; AEQUOREA; ALGAE; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; PLESIASTREA VERSIPORA;

ALGAE; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CHLOROPHYLL; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0037928115     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2003)077<0515:STROTE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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