Symbiont specificity and bleaching susceptibility among soft corals in the 1998 Great Barrier Reef mass coral bleaching event

Marine Biology

Volumn 154, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 795-804

  Goulet, Tamar L ^a   LaJeunesse, Todd C ^b   Fabricius, Katharina E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; BARRIER REEF; CORAL; CORAL BLEACHING; DINOFLAGELLATE; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND;

ALCYONACEA; ALCYONARIA; ANTHOZOA; CLAVULARIA KOELLIKERI; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; DINOPHYCEAE; NEPHTHEA; SYMBIODINIUM;

EID: 44649105613     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-008-0972-5     Document Type: Article

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