Exploring Symbiodinium diversity and host specificity in Acropora corals from geographical extremes of Western Australia with 454 amplicon pyrosequencing

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3113-3126

  Thomas, L ^a   Kendrick, G A ^a   Kennington, W J ^a   Richards, Z T ^b   Stat, M ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acropora; next generation sequencing; Symbiodinium; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

ACROPORA; ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; DINOPHYCEAE; OTUS; SCLERACTINIA; SYMBIODINIUM;

CHLOROPLAST DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ACROPORA; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLASSIFICATION; DINOFLAGELLATE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIODINIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

ACROPORA; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; SYMBIODINIUM; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; DINOFLAGELLIDA; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84902536307     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12801     Document Type: Article

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