Gene expression variation resolves species and individual strains among coral-associated dinoflagellates within the genus symbiodinium

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 665-680

  Parkinson, John E ^a   Baumgarten, Sebastian ^b   Michell, Craig T ^b   Baums, Iliana B ^a   LaJeunesse, Todd C ^a   Voolstra, Christian R ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Dinoflagellates; Phylogenetics; RNAseq; Symbiosis; Transcriptome; Zooxanthellae

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; CORAL REEF; DINOFLAGELLATE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CORAL REEFS; DINOFLAGELLIDA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85014844493     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evw019     Document Type: Article

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