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Symbiodinium genotypic and environmental controls on lipids in reef building corals.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Cooper Timothy F, Lai Michael, Ulstrup Karin E, Saunders Sandra M, Flematti Gavin R, Radford Ben, van Oppen Madeleine J H
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Lipids in reef building corals can be divided into two classes; non-polar storage lipids, e.g. wax esters and triglycerides, and polar structural lipids, e.g. phospholipids and cholesterol. Differences among algal endosymbiont types are known to have important influences on processes including growth and the photobiology of scleractinian corals yet very little is known about the role of symbiont types...
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