Heterotrophic feeding as a newly identified survival strategy of the dinoflagellate Symbiodinium

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 31, 2012, Pages 12604-12609

  Jeong, Hae Jin ^a   Yoo, Yeong Du ^a   Kang, Nam Seon ^a   Lim, An Suk ^a   Seong, Kyeong Ah ^b   Lee, Sung Yeon ^a   Lee, Moo Joon ^a   Lee, Kyung Ha ^a   Kim, Hyung Seop ^b   Shin, Woongghi ^c   Nam, Seung Won ^c   Yih, Wonho ^b   Lee, Kitack ^d  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Kunsan National University   (South Korea)

^c Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^d Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Coral bleaching; Food web; Heterosigma; Mixotrophy; Zooxanthella

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; AUTOTROPH; CORAL; DINOFLAGELLATE; FUNGUS GROWTH; HETEROTROPHY; MICROALGA; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MIXOTROPH; MIXOTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PLANT METABOLISM; PLANT TISSUE; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIODINIUM; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CORAL REEFS; DINOFLAGELLIDA; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; SYNECHOCOCCUS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ALGAE; ALVEOPORA JAPONICA; ANTHOZOA; CYANOBACTERIA; DINOPHYCEAE; HETEROSIGMA; SYMBIODINIUM; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 84864510090     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1204302109     Document Type: Article

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