Unusual Symbiotic Cyanobacteria Association in the Genetically Diverse Intertidal Marine Sponge Hymeniacidon perlevis (Demospongiae, Halichondrida)

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Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Alex, Anoop ^a,b   Vasconcelos, Vitor ^a,b   Tamagnini, Paula ^b,c   Santos, Arlete ^b,c   Antunes, Agostinho ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPACER DNA;

ACARYOCHLORIS; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATP6 GENE; COI GENE; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HYMENIACIDON PERLEVIS; INTERTIDAL SPECIES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PORTUGAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPONGE (PORIFERA); SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; SYNECHOCOCCUS; XENOCOCCUS;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CYANOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MITOCHONDRIA; PHYLOGENY; PORIFERA; PORTUGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SYMBIOSIS;

ACARYOCHLORIS; ANTHOZOA; ASCIDIACEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; DEMOSPONGIAE; HALICHONDRIDA; HYMENIACIDON PERLEVIS; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP.; XENOCOCCUS;

EID: 84871274929     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051834     Document Type: Article

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