Exploring the Symbiodinium rare biosphere provides evidence for symbiont switching in reef-building corals

ISME Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 2693-2701

  Boulotte, Nadine M ^a   Dalton, Steven J ^a   Carroll, Andrew G ^a   Harrison, Peter L ^a   Putnam, Hollie M ^b   Peplow, Lesa M ^c   Van Oppen, Madeleine J H ^c,d  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CORAL; CORAL BLEACHING; DINOFLAGELLATE; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LIFE CYCLE; REEF FORMATION; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

ANTHOZOA; DINOPHYCEAE; POCILLOPORIDAE; SYMBIODINIUM;

SEA WATER;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; CLASSIFICATION; CORAL REEF; DINOFLAGELLATE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CORAL REEFS; DINOFLAGELLIDA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEAWATER; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84964317810     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2016.54     Document Type: Article

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