Thermal stress promotes host mitochondrial degradation in symbiotic cnidarians: Are the batteries of the reef going to run out?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Dunn, Simon R ^a   Pernice, Mathieu ^a,b   Green, Kathryn ^a   Hoegh Guldberg, Ove ^a   Dove, Sophie G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CYTOCHROME C; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; UBIQUINOL CYTOCHROME C REDUCTASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL ENERGY; CNIDARIA; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOSTASIS; HOST; HYPERTHERMIA; LASER CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRIAL DEGRADATION; MITOCHONDRION; MODEL; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIONT; TEMPERATURE STRESS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; CNIDARIA; CORAL REEFS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL DEGRADATION; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SYMBIOSIS;

ANTHOZOA; CNIDARIA; DINOPHYCEAE; SYMBIODINIUM;

EID: 84864018397     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039024     Document Type: Article

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