Inter-Specific coral chimerism: Genetically distinct multicellular structures associated with tissue loss in Montipora capitata

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Work, Thierry M ^a,b   Forsman, Zac H ^b   Szabó, Zoltán ^b   Lewis, Teresa D ^c   Aeby, Greta S ^b   Toonen, Robert J ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c Dexter National Fish Hatchery and Technology Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; DIPLOIDY; GENE LOCUS; HAPLOTYPE; INVASIVE GASTROVASCULAR MULTICELLULAR STRUCTURE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MONTIPORA CAPITATA; MONTIPORA FLABELLATA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANTHOZOA; BAYES THEOREM; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; NECROSIS; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; JOINVILLEA ASCENDENS; MONTIPORA; MONTIPORA CAPITATA;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BAYES THEOREM; CHIMERISM; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; GENETIC STRUCTURES; NECROSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 79960927895     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022869     Document Type: Article

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