Identifying and characterizing alternative molecular markers for the symbiotic and free-living dinoflagellate genus symbiodinium

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Pochon, Xavier ^a   Putnam, Hollie M ^a   Burki, Fabien ^b   Gates, Ruth D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CALMODULIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE;

ACTIN GENE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CALMODULIN GENE; COB GENE; COI GENE; COIII GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINOFLAGELLATE; DNA FLANKING REGION; ELF2 GENE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MARKER GENE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; RAD24 GENE; SYMBIODINIUM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANTHOZOA; DINOPHYCEAE; INVERTEBRATA; PROTISTA; SYMBIODINIUM;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DINOFLAGELLIDA; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84855406723     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029816     Document Type: Article

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