Microsatellite loci for Symbiodinium A3 (S. fitti) a common algal symbiont among Caribbean Acropora (stony corals) and Indo-Pacific giant clams (Tridacna)

Conservation Genetics Resources

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-47

  Pinzón, Jorge H ^a   Devlin Durante, Meghann K ^a   Weber, Michele X ^b   Baums, Iliana B ^a   LaJeunesse, Todd C ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acropora; Dinoflagellate; Genotype; Population genetics; Symbiodinium; Tridacna; Zooxanthellae

Indexed keywords

ACROPORA; ACROPORA PALMATA; ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; BIVALVIA; DINOPHYCEAE; SCLERACTINIA; SYMBIODINIUM; TRIDACNA; TRIDACNA MAXIMA;

EID: 84855997883     PISSN: 18777252     EISSN: 18777260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12686-010-9283-5     Document Type: Article

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