Symbiont diversity in scleractinian corals from tropical reefs and subtropical non-reef communities in Taiwan

Coral Reefs

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 11-22

  Chen, Chaolun Allen ^a,b   Yang, Ya Wen ^a   Wei, Nuwei Vivian ^a,b   Tsai, Wan Shen ^c   Fang, Lee Shing ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF CELLULAR AND ORGANISMIC BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MARINE BIOLOGY AND AQUARIUM   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Nuclear large subunit ribosomal DNA; Nuclear small subunit ribosomal DNA; Phylogenetic analysis; RFLP; Symbiodinium

Indexed keywords

CORAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMBIONT; ZOOXANTHELLA;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; PENGHU ISLANDS; TAIWAN; WORLD;

ANTHOZOA; SCLERACTINIA; SYMBIODINIUM;

EID: 17044372032     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-004-0389-7     Document Type: Article

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