Host adaptation and unexpected symbiont partners enable reef-building corals to tolerate extreme temperatures

Global Change Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 2702-2714

  Howells, Emily J ^a   Abrego, David ^b   Meyer, Eli ^c   Kirk, Nathan L ^c   Burt, John A ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI   (United Arab Emirates)

^b ZAYED UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabian Gulf; brain coral; climate change; Persian Gulf; Platygyra daedalea; Sea of Oman; Symbiodinium; zooxanthellae

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL REEF; HOST; SYMBIONT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; CORAL REEF; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INDIAN OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CORAL REEFS; INDIAN OCEAN; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN; PERSIAN GULF;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; PLATYGYRA DAEDALEA; SYMBIODINIUM;

EID: 85027930253     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13250     Document Type: Article

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