SymbioGBR: A web-based database of Symbiodinium associated with cnidarian hosts on the Great Barrier Reef

BMC Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Tonk, Linda ^a   Bongaerts, Pim ^a   Sampayo, Eugenia M ^a   Hoegh Guldberg, Ove ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Coral host; Great Barrier Reef; Symbiodinium; Symbioses

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CORAL; DATABASE; DINOFLAGELLATE; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENETIC MARKER; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMBIOSIS;

AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; CNIDARIA; INVERTEBRATA; SCLERACTINIA; SYMBIODINIUM;

RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CORAL REEF; DINOFLAGELLATE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; INTERNET; MICROBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; AUSTRALIA; CORAL REEFS; DATABASES, GENETIC; DINOFLAGELLIDA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENETIC MARKERS; INTERNET; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874814608     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6785-13-7     Document Type: Article

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