Productivity links morphology, symbiont specificity and bleaching in the evolution of Caribbean octocoral symbioses

ISME Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2620-2629

  Baker, David M ^a,b,c   Freeman, Christopher J ^d,e   Knowlton, Nancy ^b   Thacker, Robert W ^d   Kim, Kiho ^f   Fogel, Marilyn L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^e SMITHSONIAN MARINE STATION   (United States)

^f AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEACHING; CARBON FIXATION; CORAL; DINOFLAGELLATE; ENDOSYMBIONT; MORPHOLOGY; MUTUALISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENETICS; POPULATION GENETICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BOCAS DEL TORO; CARIBBEAN SEA; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

ANTHOZOA; CNIDARIA; DINOPHYCEAE; GORGONACEA; GORGONIA; PHYLO; SYMBIODINIUM;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; CARBON CYCLE; CARIBBEAN; CLASSIFICATION; DINOFLAGELLATE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CARBON CYCLE; CARIBBEAN REGION; DINOFLAGELLIDA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84947612188     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2015.71     Document Type: Article

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