Apoptosis and the selective survival of host animals following thermal bleaching in zooxanthellate corals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 9905-9909

  Tchernov, Dan ^a,b   Kvitt, Hagit ^a,b,c   Haramaty, Liti ^d   Bibbyd, Thomas S ^d,e   Gorbunov, Maxim Y ^d   Rosenfeld, Hanna ^c   Falkowski, Paul G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b Interuniversity Institute of Eilat   (Israel)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR MARICULTURE   (Israel)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; CASPASE INHIBITOR; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CNIDARIA; CORAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE STRESS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CASPASES; CELL MEMBRANE; CHROMATIN; DINOFLAGELLIDA; DNA FRAGMENTATION; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SEAWATER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; DINOPHYCEAE; SYMBIODINIUM;

EID: 79959989227     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1106924108     Document Type: Article

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