Quantifying cryptic Symbiodinium diversity within Orbicella faveolata and Orbicella franksi at the Flower Garden Banks, Gulf of Mexico

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Volumn 2014, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Green, Elizabeth A ^a   Davies, Sarah W ^b   Matz, Mikhail V ^b   Medina, Mónica ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Flower garden banks; ITS 2; Linear mixed model; Metabarcoding; Next generation sequencing (NGS); Orbicella faveolata; Orbicella franksi; OTU; Symbiodinium

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORAL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GULF OF MEXICO; HAPLOTYPE; NONHUMAN; ORBICELLA FAVEOLATA; ORBICELLA FRANKSI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOGENE; SYMBIODINIUM;

EID: 84903845997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.386     Document Type: Article

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