Coral Thermal Tolerance: Tuning Gene Expression to Resist Thermal Stress

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Bellantuono, Anthony J ^a   Granados Cifuentes, Camila ^b   Miller, David J ^c   Hoegh Guldberg, Ove ^c,d   Rodriguez Lanetty, Mauricio ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LECTIN;

ACROPORA MILLEPORA; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOW TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYSICAL TOLERANCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TEMPERATURE STRESS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DINOFLAGELLIDA; GLOBAL WARMING; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ACROPORA MILLEPORA; ANTHOZOA; SCLERACTINIA; SYMBIODINIUM;

EID: 84870580068     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050685     Document Type: Article

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