Transcriptomic responses to darkness stress point to common coral bleaching mechanisms

Coral Reefs

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 215-228

  DeSalvo, M K ^a,b   Estrada, A ^a   Sunagawa, S ^a,c   Medina, Mónica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coral bleaching; Coral reefs; Darkness stress; Microarrays; Symbiosis; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; ARRAY; CELL ORGANELLE; COASTAL PROTECTION; CORAL BLEACHING; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FORECASTING METHOD; FRAGMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; HEAT BALANCE; LIGHT EFFECT; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SEAWATER; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ACROPORA PALMATA; ANTHOZOA; MONTASTRAEA FAVEOLATA;

EID: 84857190734     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-011-0833-4     Document Type: Article

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