Photosymbiotic giant clams are transformers of solar flux

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 11, Issue 101, 2014, Pages

  Holt, Amanda L ^a,d   Vahidinia, Sanaz ^b   Gagnon, Yakir Luc ^c   Morse, Daniel E ^a   Sweeney, Alison M ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; Giant clams; Photosymbiosis; Solar energy conversion; Symbiodinium

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; FORWARD SCATTERING; MICROORGANISMS; MOLLUSCS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS (BOTANY); REEFS; SHELLFISH; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TISSUE;

BIOPHOTONIC SYSTEMS; DAMAGE RESISTANTS; GIANT CLAMS; NON-PHOTOCHEMICAL QUENCHING; OPTICAL MODELLING; PHOTOSYMBIOSIS; PHOTOVOLTAIC MATERIALS; SYMBIODINIUM;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLAM; CORAL REEF; ENERGY CONSERVATION; EPITHELIUM; FIBER OPTICS; GEOMETRY; IRIDOCYTE; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROALGA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; NONPHOTOCHEMICAL QUENCHING; PHOTOSYMBIOSIS; RADIOMETRY; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE AREA; SYMBIOSIS; TRIDACNA CROCEA; TRIDACNA DERASA; TRIDACNA MAXIMA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIVALVE; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; LIGHT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; BIVALVIA; SYMBIODINIUM; TRIDACNIDAE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIVALVIA; LIGHT; MICROALGAE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84928920294     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2014.0678     Document Type: Article

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