Mesophotic coral depth acclimatization is a function of host-specific symbiont physiology

Frontiers in Marine Science

Volumn 2, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Ziegler, Maren ^a,b,c   Roder, Cornelia M ^a   Büchel, Claudia ^b   Voolstra, Christian R ^a  

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

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coral reef; Mesophotic coral; Photosynthetic pigments; Red Sea; Symbiodinium

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008957029     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22967745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2015.00004     Document Type: Article

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