Flexibility in algal endosymbioses shapes growth in reef corals

Science

Volumn 304, Issue 5676, 2004, Pages 1492-1494

  Little, Angela F ^a   Van Oppen, Madeleine J H ^b   Willis, Bette L ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BIODIVERSITY; REEFS; STRAIN;

JUVENILE CORALS; REEF CORALS; SCLERACTINIAN (STONY) CORALS; SYMBIOSIS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CORAL REEF; GROWTH RATE; REEF FORMATION; SYMBIOSIS; ZOOXANTHELLA;

ALGA; ARTICLE; CORAL; CORAL REEF; GENOTYPE; GROWTH RATE; LARVA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALGAE; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; DINOFLAGELLIDA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; LARVA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 2642541670     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1095733     Document Type: Article

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