Protein expression and genetic structure of the coral Porites lobata in an environmentally extreme Samoan back reef: Does host genotype limit phenotypic plasticity?

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1705-1720

  Barshis, D J ^a,b   Stillman, J H ^c   Gates, R D ^a   Toonen, R J ^a   Smith, L W ^b   Birkeland, C ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coral resilience; Local adaptation; Phenotypic plasticity; Porites lobata; Reciprocal transplant experiment; Ubiquitin

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PROTEOME; UBIQUITIN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION; AMERICAN SAMOA; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; SYMBIOSIS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMERICAN SAMOA; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL NUCLEUS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOTYPE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PHENOTYPE; PROTEOME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SYMBIOSIS; UBIQUITIN;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; PORITES LOBATA;

EID: 77950262100     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04574.x     Document Type: Article

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