The seaweed holobiont: Understanding seaweed-bacteria interactions

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 462-476

  Egan, Suhelen ^a   Harder, Tilmann ^a   Burke, Catherine ^b   Steinberg, Peter ^a,c,d   Kjelleberg, Staffan ^a,e   Thomas, Torsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c SYDNEY INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Algae; Host microbe interactions; Macroalgae; Marine microbiology; Seaweed; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; POLYMER;

BACTERIUM; BIOFOULING; CHEMISTRY; CORAL; HOLOBIONT; HOST; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; REVIEW; SAPROTROPH; SEAWEED;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIODIVERSITY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; METAGENOME; SEAWEED; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84876021232     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6976.12011     Document Type: Review

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