Coral-associated marine fungi form novel lineages and heterogeneous assemblages

ISME Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1291-1301

  Amend, Anthony S ^a   Barshis, Daniel J ^b   Oliver, Thomas A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

454 meta genomics; fungal community assembly; Malassezia; marine fungi; mRNA meta transcriptomics; scleractinian coral bleaching

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; SEA WATER;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOINDICATOR; COEXISTENCE; COLONY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CORAL; DINOFLAGELLATE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FUNGUS; GENOMICS; HETEROGENEITY; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; POOL; SURVIVAL; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE; WARMING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DINOFLAGELLATE; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; DINOFLAGELLIDA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE;

ACROPORA HYACINTHUS; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; DINOPHYCEAE; FUNGI; HYACINTHUS; MALASSEZIA; SCLERACTINIA; SYMBIODINIUM;

EID: 84862611299     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2011.193     Document Type: Article

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