Soft coral sarcophyton (cnidaria: Anthozoa: Octocorallia) species diversity and chemotypes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Aratake, Satoe ^a   Tomura, Tomohiko ^a   Saitoh, Seikoh ^a   Yokokura, Ryouma ^a   Kawanishi, Yuichi ^a   Shinjo, Ryuichi ^a   Reimer, James Davis ^a   Tanaka, Junichi ^a   Maekawa, Hideaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; PROTEIN MUTS; RIBOSOME DNA; DITERPENE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMOTAXIS; CNIDARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; JAPAN; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MORPHOLOGY; MSH1 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SARCHOPHYTON GLAUCUM; SARCHOPHYTON TROCHELIOPHORUM; SARCOPHYTON; SCLERITE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SYMBIODINIUM; TAXONOMY; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DINOFLAGELLATE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS;

ALCYONACEA; ALCYONARIA; ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; CNIDARIA; SARCOPHYTON; SARCOPHYTON GLAUCUM; SARCOPHYTON TROCHELIOPHORUM; SYMBIODINIUM;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CELL NUCLEUS; DINOFLAGELLIDA; DITERPENES; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENETIC VARIATION; JAPAN; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84855849815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030410     Document Type: Article

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