Transmission Mode Predicts Specificity and Interaction Patterns in Coral-Symbiodinium Networks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Fabina, Nicholas S ^a   Putnam, Hollie M ^b   Franklin, Erik C ^b   Stat, Michael ^b,c   Gates, Ruth D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CORAL; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM; ENDOSYMBIONT; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PREDICTION; SCLERACTINIA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMBIODINIUM; SYMBIONT; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DINOFLAGELLIDA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; SCLERACTINIA; SYMBIODINIUM;

EID: 84866489541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044970     Document Type: Article

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