The susceptibility and resilience of corals to thermal stress: Adaptation, acclimatization or both?: NEWS and VIEWS

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1515-1517

  Weis, Virginia M ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; UBIQUITIN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION; AMERICAN SAMOA; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEAT; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMERICAN SAMOA; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; GENETIC MARKERS; GLOBAL WARMING; HOT TEMPERATURE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SYMBIOSIS; UBIQUITIN;

ANTHOZOA; DINOPHYCEAE; PORITES LOBATA; SYMBIODINIUM;

EID: 77950206098     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04575.x     Document Type: Article

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