Modulation of Light-Enhancement to Symbiotic Algae by Light-Scattering in Corals and Evolutionary Trends in Bleaching

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Marcelino, Luisa A ^a,b   Westneat, Mark W ^b   Stoyneva, Valentina ^a   Henss, Jillian ^a,b   Rogers, Jeremy D ^a   Radosevich, Andrew ^a   Turzhitsky, Vladimir ^a   Siple, Margaret ^a,b   Fang, Andrew ^a   Swain, Timothy D ^a,b   Fung, Jennifer ^a   Backman, Vadim ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGA; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CORAL; EVOLUTION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LIGHT INTENSITY; LIGHT SCATTERING; LOW COHERENCE ENHANCED BACKSCATTERING SPECTROSCOPY; MODULATION; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; SKELETON; SPECTROSCOPY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DINOFLAGELLIDA; LIGHT; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 84876430286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061492     Document Type: Article

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