Taxonomic and environmental variation of metabolite profiles in marine dinoflagellates of the genus Symbiodinium

Metabolites

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 74-99

  Klueter, Anke ^a   Crandall, Jesse B ^b   Archer, Frederick I ^c   Teece, Mark A ^b   Coffroth, Mary Alice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics and systems biology; Marine dinoflagellates; Metabolism and metabolomics; Metabolite profiling; Phototrophic algae; Random Forests analysis; Symbiodinium

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA FRAGMENT; FATTY ACID; HEXOSE; INOSITOL; STANOZOLOL; STEROL;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DINOFLAGELLATE; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); LIGHT INTENSITY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RANDOM FOREST; SYMBIODINIUM; TAXONOMIC VARIATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; DINOPHYCEAE; INVERTEBRATA; SYMBIODINIUM; SYMBIODINIUM MICROADRIATICUM;

EID: 84940446860     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22181989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/metabo5010074     Document Type: Article

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