Genetic identity of free-living Symbiodinium obtained over a broad latitudinal range in the Japanese coast

Phycological Research

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 68-80

  Yamashita, Hiroshi ^a,b   Koike, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Free living forms; Internal transcribed spacer rDNA; Large subunit rDNA; Molecular phylogeny; Symbiodinium; Symbiont sources; Symbiosis; Zooxanthellae

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; CORAL; DINOFLAGELLATE; DNA; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); JAPAN;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; CNIDARIA; DINOPHYCEAE; SYMBIODINIUM;

EID: 84872796778     PISSN: 13220829     EISSN: 14401835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pre.12004     Document Type: Article

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