Establishment of coral-algal symbiosis requires attraction and selection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Yamashita, Hiroshi ^a   Suzuki, Go ^a   Kai, Sayaka ^a   Hayashibara, Takeshi ^a   Koike, Kazuhiko ^b  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

ACROPORA; ALGAL CELL CULTURE; ALGAL INFECTION; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GENOTYPE; JUVENILE ANIMAL; LARVA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SYMBIODINIUM; SYMBIOSIS; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; CORAL REEF; DINOFLAGELLATE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CORAL REEFS; DINOFLAGELLIDA; ECOSYSTEM; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84901247759     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097003     Document Type: Article

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