A cross-ocean comparison of responses to settlement cues in reef-building corals

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Volumn 2014, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Davies, Sarah W ^a   Meyer, Eli ^b   Guermond, Sarah M ^b   Matz, Mikhail V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

18S rRNA; Coral recruitment; Crustose coralline algae; Meta barcoding; OTU; Settlement cues

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL REEF; CORALLINE ALGA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STEREOMICROSCOPY;

EID: 84899053398     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.333     Document Type: Article

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