Unusual symbiotic relationships between microendolithic phototrophic organisms and azooxanthellate cold-water corals from Chilean fjords

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 370, Issue , 2008, Pages 121-125

  Försterra, Günter ^a,b   Häussermann, Verena ^a,b  

^a Huinay Scientific Field Station   (Chile)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

Author keywords

Anthozoa; Cnidaria; Cyanobacterium; Ectosymbiosis; Endolithic; Green alga; Ostreobium queckettii; Plectonema terebrans; Shallow water benthos

Indexed keywords

COLD WATER; CORAL; FJORD; GREEN ALGA; PHOTOAUTOTROPHY; SYMBIOSIS; ZOOXANTHELLA;

CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANTHOZOA; CARYOPHYLLIA; CHLOROPHYTA; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; DESMOPHYLLUM DIANTHUS; DIANTHUS CARYOPHYLLUS; OSTREOBIUM; PLECTONEMA; PLECTONEMA TEREBRANS;

EID: 56749165437     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07630     Document Type: Article

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