Symbiodinium spp. in colonies of eastern Pacific Pocillopora spp. are highly stable despite the prevalence of low-abundance background populations

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 462, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-7

  McGinley, Michael P ^a   Aschaffenburg, Matthew D ^a   Pettay, Daniel T ^a   Smith, Robin T ^b   LaJeunesse, Todd C ^c   Warner, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coral bleaching; Eastern Pacific; Pocillopora; Real time PCR; Symbiodinium; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COLD WATER; COLONY; CORAL; CORAL BLEACHING; DINOFLAGELLATE; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS;

GULF OF CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84865403958     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09914     Document Type: Article

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