Natural disease resistance in threatened staghorn corals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Vollmer, Steven V ^a,b   Kline, David I ^b,c  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CORAL; CORAL REEF; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENOTYPE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MARINE SPECIES; NATURAL DISEASE RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STAGHORN CORAL; WHITE BAND DISEASE; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; CENTRAL AMERICA; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INNATE IMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ACROPORA; ACROPORA CERVICORNIS; ACROPORA PALMATA; ANTHOZOA; SCLERACTINIA;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CARIBBEAN REGION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; GENE FLOW; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 56649097234     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003718     Document Type: Article

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