Developing the anemone Aiptasia as a tractable model for cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis: the transcriptome of aposymbiotic A. pallida

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Lehnert, Erik M ^a   Burriesci, Matthew S ^a   Pringle, John R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anemone; Cnidaria; Coral; Dinoflagellate; Neuropeptide; Single nucleotide variant; Symbiosis; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

AIPTASIA PALLIDA; ANEMONE; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CNIDARIA; CORAL REEF; CYTOSKELETON; DINOFLAGELLATE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ENZYME METABOLISM; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLYCOLYSIS; HYPEROSMOLARITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYMBIOSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DINOFLAGELLIDA; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME SIZE; INDEL MUTATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROPEPTIDES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEA ANEMONES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ACTINIARIA; AIPTASIA; AIPTASIA PALLIDA; ANEMONE; ANTHOZOA; CNIDARIA; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 84862519541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-271     Document Type: Article

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