Host-specialist lineages dominate the adaptive radiation of reef coral endosymbionts

Evolution

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 352-367

  Thornhill, Daniel J ^a   Lewis, Allison M ^b   Wham, Drew C ^b   Lajeunesse, Todd C ^b  

^a Defenders of Wildlife   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coral symbiosis; Dinoflagellate; Ecological specialization; Phylogeography; Speciation; Symbiodinium

Indexed keywords

ANTHOZOA; DINOPHYCEAE; SYMBIODINIUM;

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL REEF; CORAL SYMBIOSIS; DINOFLAGELLATE; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; GENETICS; HOST RANGE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SYMBIODINIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL SYMBIOSIS; DINOFLAGELLATE; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIATION; SYMBIODINIUM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CORAL REEFS; DINOFLAGELLIDA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; HOST SPECIFICITY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84898428251     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12270     Document Type: Article

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