Location-specific responses to thermal stress in larvae of the reef-building coral Montastraea faveolata

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Polato, Nicholas R ^a   Voolstra, Christian R ^b   Schnetzer, Julia ^c   DeSalvo, Michael K ^d   Randall, Carly J ^e   Szmant, Alina M ^e   Medina, Mónica ^d   Baums, Iliana B ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CORAL; DNA MICROARRAY; EMBRYO; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MEXICO; MONTASTRAEA FAVEOLATA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN METABOLISM; TEMPERATURE STRESS; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

ANTHOZOA; MONTASTRAEA FAVEOLATA; SCLERACTINIA;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77955284871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011221     Document Type: Article

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