Building coral reef resilience through assisted evolution

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2307-2313

  Van Oppen, Madeleine J H ^a   Oliver, James K ^a   Putnam, Hollie M ^b   Gates, Ruth D ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Microbial symbionts; Selective breeding; Transgenerational acclimatization

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION; CORAL REEF; DNA MODIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRESS; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84923673725     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1422301112     Document Type: Review

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