Mapping carbon fate during bleaching in a model cnidarian symbiosis: the application of 13C metabolomics

New Phytologist

Volumn 214, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1551-1562

  Hillyer, Katie E ^a   Dias, Daniel A ^b   Lutz, Adrian ^c   Roessner, Ute ^c   Davy, Simon K ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aiptasia; coral bleaching; GC MS; metabolomics; photodamage; stable isotope tracer; Symbiodinium; translocation

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIXATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; DINOFLAGELLATE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MAPPING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; METAZOAN; PHOTODEGRADATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; SYMBIOSIS; TRACER; TRANSLOCATION;

AIPTASIA; ANTHOZOA; DINOPHYCEAE; SYMBIODINIUM;

CARBON;

ANIMAL; DINOFLAGELLATE; HEAT; ISOTOPE LABELING; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; METABOLOMICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEA ANEMONE; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; DINOFLAGELLIDA; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HOT TEMPERATURE; ISOTOPE LABELING; METABOLOMICS; SEA ANEMONES; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 85014665290     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.14515     Document Type: Article

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