Host hybridization alters specificity of cnidarian-dinoflagellate associations

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 420, Issue , 2010, Pages 113-123

  Thornhill, Daniel J ^a   Doubleday, Katharine ^a   Kemp, Dustin W ^b   Santos, Scott R ^c  

^a BOWDOIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coral reef; Endosymbiosis; Montastraea; Reticulate evolution; Scleractinia; Symbiodinium; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ALGA; CORAL; CORAL REEF; DINOFLAGELLATE; ENDOSYMBIONT; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST SPECIFICITY; HYBRIDIZATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SPECIES COMPLEX; SYMBIOSIS;

BAHAMAS; EXUMA CAYS; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; FLORIDA KEYS; UNITED STATES;

ANNULARIS SPECIES COMPLEX; ANTHOZOA; CNIDARIA; DINOPHYCEAE; MONTASTRAEA; MONTASTRAEA ANNULARIS; MONTASTRAEA FAVEOLATA; SCLERACTINIA; SYMBIODINIUM;

EID: 78651299925     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08875     Document Type: Article

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