Article
Recognizing diversity in coral symbiotic dinoflagellate communities.
Molecular ecology - 1 Mar 2007
Apprill Amy M, Gates Ruth D
Abstract excerpt
A detailed understanding of how diversity in endosymbiotic dinoflagellate communities maps onto the physiological range of coral hosts is critical to predicting how coral reef ecosystems will respond to climate change. Species-level taxonomy of the dinoflagellate genus Symbiodinium has been predominantly examined using the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of the nuclear ribosomal array (rDNA ITS2) and...
Topics
- Animals
- Anthozoa
- Base Sequence
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Ribosomal
- Dinoflagellida
- Electrophoresis
- Gene Library
- Genetic Variation
- Hawaii
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Oceans and Seas
- Phylogeny
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Symbiosis