Responses of coral-associated bacterial communities to heat stress differ with Symbiodinium type on the same coral host

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1978-1990

  Littman, Raechel A ^a,b   Bourne, David G ^a,b   Willis, Bette L ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Coral; Holobiont; Symbiodinium; Vibrio

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; DINOFLAGELLATE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; HEAT; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SYMBIOSIS; VIBRIO;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; DINOFLAGELLIDA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE LIBRARY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HOT TEMPERATURE; LARVA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS; VIBRIO;

ACROPORA TENUIS; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DINOPHYCEAE; SYMBIODINIUM; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CORALLIILYTICUS;

EID: 77951155988     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04620.x     Document Type: Article

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