Profiling gene expression responses of coral larvae (Acropora millepora) to elevated temperature and settlement inducers using a novel RNA-Seq procedure

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 3599-3616

  Meyer, E ^a   Aglyamova, G V ^a   Matz, M V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cnidarian; heat shock; recruitment; transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; RNA;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HEAT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; METABOLISM; METAMORPHOSIS; METHODOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC VARIATION; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HOT TEMPERATURE; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TEMPERATURE; UP-REGULATION;

ACROPORA MILLEPORA; ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; CNIDARIA;

EID: 80052099023     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05205.x     Document Type: Article

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