Patterns of coral ecological immunology: Variation in the responses of Caribbean corals to elevated temperature and a pathogen elicitor

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 214, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 4240-4249

  Palmer, Caroline V ^a,b   McGinty, Elizabeth S ^c   Cummings, David J ^c   Smith, Stephanie M ^c   Bartels, Erich ^d   Mydlarz, Laura D ^c  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^d MOTE MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coral; Disease resistance; Innate immunity; Lipopolysaccaride; Montastraea faveolata; Porites astreoides; Prophenoloxidase; Stephanocoenia intersepta; Temperature stress

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL OXIDASE; ENZYME PRECURSOR; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PRO PHENOLOXIDASE; PRO-PHENOLOXIDASE;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; ENZYMOLOGY; HEAT; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CARIBBEAN REGION; CATECHOL OXIDASE; ENZYME PRECURSORS; HOT TEMPERATURE; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES;

EID: 83155175532     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.061267     Document Type: Article

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