New insights into the dynamics between reef corals and their associated dinoflagellate endosymbionts from population genetic studies

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 4203-4215

  Baums, Iliana B ^a   Devlin Durante, Meghann K ^a   Lajeunesse, Todd C ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; Cnidarians; coevolution; contemporary evolution; coral reefs; ecological genetics; population genetics empirical; species interactions; Symbiodinium

Indexed keywords

ACROPORA; ACROPORA PALMATA; ALGAE; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; CNIDARIA; DINOPHYCEAE; SYMBIODINIUM;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CNIDARIA; COEVOLUTION; CONTEMPORARY EVOLUTION; CORAL REEF; DINOFLAGELLATE; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; GENE FLOW; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION GENETICS-EMPIRICAL; SPECIES INTERACTIONS; SYMBIODINIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CNIDARIANS; COEVOLUTION; CONTEMPORARY EVOLUTION; CORAL REEFS; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; POPULATION GENETICS-EMPIRICAL; SPECIES INTERACTIONS; SYMBIODINIUM;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CARIBBEAN REGION; CORAL REEFS; DINOFLAGELLIDA; GENE FLOW; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84906943570     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12788     Document Type: Article

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