Deep down on a Caribbean reef: Lower mesophotic depths harbor a specialized coral-endosymbiont community

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Bongaerts, Pim ^a,b   Frade, Pedro R ^b,c   Hay, Kyra B ^a   Englebert, Norbert ^a   Latijnhouwers, Kelly R W ^a,d   Bak, Rolf P M ^b,d,e   Vermeij, Mark J A ^b,d   Hoegh Guldberg, Ove ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CARMABI ^*  (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; CARIBBEAN; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CARIBBEAN REGION; CORAL REEFS; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84937713891     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07652     Document Type: Article

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