Stability of coral-endosymbiont associations during and after a thermal stress event in the southern Great Barrier Reef

Coral Reefs

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 709-713

  Stat, M ^a,d   Loh, W K W ^b   LaJeunesse, T C ^c   Hoegh Guldberg, O ^b   Carter, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Coral; Dinoflagellate; ITS2; RDNA; Symbiodinium; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ANTHOZOA; DINOPHYCEAE; SYMBIODINIUM;

EID: 70349998968     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-009-0509-5     Document Type: Note

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