Ancestral genetic diversity associated with the rapid spread of stress-tolerant coral symbionts in response to holocene climate change

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 16, 2016, Pages 4416-4421

  Hume, Benjamin C C ^a   Voolstra, Christian R ^b   Arif, Chatchanit ^b   D'Angelo, Cecilia ^a   Burt, John A ^c   Eyal, Gal ^d,e   Loya, Yossi ^d   Wiedenmann, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI   (United Arab Emirates)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Coral; Persian Arabian Gulf; Symbiodinium

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL REEF; EVOLUTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HABITUAL ADAPTATION; HEAT STRESS; HEAT TOLERANCE; HOLOCENE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCEANIC REGIONS; PERSIAN ARABIAN GULF; PLESIOMORPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIODINIUM; SYMBIODINIUM THERMOPHILUM; SYMBIONT; TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; DINOFLAGELLATE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; SALINITY; SEA; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; DINOFLAGELLIDA; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIATION; OCEANS AND SEAS; SALINITY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84964330340     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1601910113     Document Type: Article

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