Not just who, but how many: The importance of partner abundance in reef coral symbioses

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Cunning, Ross ^a   Baker, Andrew C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Benefits and costs; Cell ratio; Coral; Density dependence; Normalization; Symbiodinium; Symbiont density; Symbiosis regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905668965     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00400     Document Type: Article

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