Genomes of coral dinoflagellate symbionts highlight evolutionary adaptations conducive to a symbiotic lifestyle

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Aranda, M ^a   Li, Y ^a   Liew, Y J ^a   Baumgarten, S ^a   Simakov, O ^b   Wilson, M C ^c   Piel, J ^c   Ashoor, H ^a   Bougouffa, S ^a   Bajic, V B ^a   Ryu, T ^a   Ravasi, T ^a   Bayer, T ^a,d   Micklem, G ^e   Kim, H ^f   Bhak, J ^f   LaJeunesse, T C ^g   Voolstra, C R ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f Personal Genomics Institute   (South Korea)

^g PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; CLASSIFICATION; DINOFLAGELLATE; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; DINOFLAGELLIDA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 85006860836     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep39734     Document Type: Article

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