Article
Ribosomal RNA sequences and the diversity of symbiotic dinoflagellates (zooxanthellae).
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Apr 1992
Rowan R, Powers D A
Abstract excerpt
Zooxanthellae are unicellular algae that occur as endosymbionts in many hundreds of common marine invertebrates. The issue of zooxanthella diversity has been difficult to address. Most zooxanthellae have been placed in the dinoflagellate genus Symbiodinium as one or several species that are not easily distinguished. We compared Symbiodinium and nonsymbiotic dinoflagellates using small ribosomal subunit RNA...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- DNA
- Dinoflagellida
- Genetic Variation
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Oligodeoxyribonucleotides
- Phylogeny
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- RNA, Ribosomal
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid