Coral thermal tolerance shaped by local adaptation of photosymbionts

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 116-120

  Howells, E J ^a,b   Beltran, V H ^a,b   Larsen, N W ^a   Bay, L K ^a,b   Willis, B L ^a   Van Oppen, M J H ^a,b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; DINOFLAGELLATE; DIVERGENCE; FITNESS; GENETIC ISOLATION; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; JUVENILE; LOCAL ADAPTATION; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOLERANCE;

ANTHOZOA; DINOPHYCEAE; SYMBIODINIUM;

EID: 84857463259     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1330     Document Type: Article

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