Early uptake of specific symbionts enhances the post-settlement survival of Acropora corals

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 494, Issue , 2013, Pages 149-158

  Suzuki, Go ^a   Yamashita, Hiroshi ^a   Kai, Sayaka ^a   Hayashibara, Takeshi ^a   Suzuki, Kiyoshi ^b   Iehisa, Yukihiro ^b   Okada, Wataru ^c   Ando, Wataru ^d   Komori, Takeshi ^e  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^b Daikure Ltd   (Japan)

^c Coastal Environmental Design Division ECOH Co Ltd ^*  (Japan)

^d Fisheries Infrastructure Development Center   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL VETERINARY ASSAY LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coral restoration; Coral algal symbiosis; Horizontal transmission; Self recruitment; Symbiodinium

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CLADISTICS; CORAL; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DINOFLAGELLATE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; SURVIVAL; SYMBIOSIS;

ACROPORA; ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; DINOPHYCEAE; SYMBIODINIUM;

EID: 84889652085     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10548     Document Type: Article

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