Novel adaptive photosynthetic characteristics of mesophotic symbiotic microalgae within the reef-building coral, Stylophora pistillata

Frontiers in Marine Science

Volumn 3, Issue OCT, 2016, Pages

  Einbinder, Shai ^a,b   Gruber, David F ^c   Salomon, Eitan ^b   Liran, Oded ^a,d   Keren, Nir ^b   Tchernov, Dan ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Excitation energy transfer; Low light acclimation; Mesophotic coral reef; Photosynthesis; Symbiodinium spp.

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008700566     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22967745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00195     Document Type: Article

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