Non-seasonal clade-specificity and subclade microvariation in symbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium spp.) in Zoanthus sansibaricus (Anthozoa: Hexacorallia) at Kagoshima Bay, Japan

Phycological Research

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 58-65

  Reimer, James D ^a,d   Ono, Shusuke ^b   Tsukahara, Junzo ^c   Takishita, Kiyotaka ^a   Maruyama, Tadashi ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Miyakonojo Higashi High School   (Japan)

^c KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Biological Institute on Kuroshio   (Japan)

Author keywords

Internal transcribed spacer of ribosomal DNA; Symbiodinium; Symbiosis; Zoanthus; Zooxanthellae

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; DINOFLAGELLATE; DNA; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; ZOOXANTHELLA;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; KAGOSHIMA BAY; KAGOSHIMA [KYUSHU]; KYUSHU; SAKURAJIMA;

ANTHOZOA; CNIDARIA; DINOPHYCEAE; SYMBIODINIUM; ZOANTHARIA; ZOANTHUS; ZOANTHUS SANSIBARICUS;

EID: 33846905437     PISSN: 13220829     EISSN: 14401835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1835.2006.00446.x     Document Type: Article

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