Regulation of apoptotic pathways by Stylophora pistillata (anthozoa, pocilloporidae) to survive thermal stress and bleaching

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Kvitt, Hagit ^a,b,c   Rosenfeld, Hanna ^c   Zandbank, Keren ^b   Tchernov, Dan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b Interuniversity Institute of Eilat   (Israel)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR MARICULTURE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTHOZOA; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BCL 2 LIKE GENE; BLEACHING; CASPASE GENE; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; HEAT TOLERANCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STYLOPHORA PISTILLATA; TEMPERATURE STRESS; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NICK END LABELING; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; APOPTOSIS; CASPASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHOTOBLEACHING; PHYLOGENY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 83355172816     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028665     Document Type: Article

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