Frontiers in Marine Science, 2017 The majority of corals acquire their photo-endosymbiont Symbiodinium from environmental sources anew each generation. Despite the critical role that environmental availability of Symbiodinium plays in the potential for corals to acclimate and adapt to ...
Kate M. Quigley +5 more
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Symbiodinium transcriptomes: genome insights into the dinoflagellate symbionts of reef-building corals. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Dinoflagellates are unicellular algae that are ubiquitously abundant in aquatic environments. Species of the genus Symbiodinium form symbiotic relationships with reef-building corals and other marine invertebrates.
Till Bayer +8 more
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Separate introns gained within short and long soluble peridinin-chlorophyll a-protein genes during radiation of Symbiodinium (Dinophyceae) clade A and B lineages. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Here we document introns in two Symbiodinium clades that were most likely gained following divergence of this genus from other peridinin-containing dinoflagellate lineages.
Jay R Reichman, Peter D Vize
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Symbiodinium spp. associated with scleractinian corals from Dongsha Atoll (Pratas), Taiwan, in the South China Sea [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Dongsha Atoll (also known as Pratas) in Taiwan is the northernmost atoll in the South China Sea and a designated marine national park since 2007. The marine park’s scope of protection covers the bio-resources of its waters in addition to uplands, so it ...
Shashank Keshavmurthy +7 more
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The effect of temperature and nitrogen deprivation on cell morphology and physiology of Symbiodinium
Oceanologia, 2016 Nutrients and temperature are the major elements in maintaining stable endosymbiotic relationships. The mechanisms and response of cultured Symbiodinium cells in the absence of nitrogen, and at various temperatures are still unclear.
Buntora Pasaribu +8 more
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Using high-throughput sequencing of ITS2 to describe Symbiodinium metacommunities in St. John, US Virgin Islands [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Symbiotic microalgae (Symbiodinium spp.) strongly influence the performance and stress-tolerance of their coral hosts, making the analysis of Symbiodinium communities in corals (and metacommunities on reefs) advantageous for many aspects of coral reef ...
Ross Cunning +2 more
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Transmission of a heterologous clade C Symbiodinium in a model anemone infection system via asexual reproduction [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 Anemones of genus Exaiptasia are used as model organisms for the study of cnidarian-dinoflagellate (genus Symbiodinium) endosymbiosis. However, while most reef-building corals harbor Symbiodinium of clade C, Exaiptasia spp. anemones mainly harbor clade B
Wan-Nan U. Chen +5 more
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Environmental factors controlling the distribution of symbiodinium harboured by the coral Acropora millepora on the Great Barrier Reef. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 BACKGROUND: The Symbiodinium community associated with scleractinian corals is widely considered to be shaped by seawater temperature, as the coral's upper temperature tolerance is largely contingent on the Symbiodinium types harboured.
Timothy F Cooper +9 more
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Specific growth rate and mitotic index in dinoflagellate Symbiodinium sp. isolateed from sea anemone Stichodactyla haddoni [PDF]
بومشناسی آبزیان, 2017 The cultivation techniques of dinoflagellates is often problematic due to their sensitivity to hydrodynamic (shear) stress. For this study, sea anemone was collected from the east coast of Hormuz Island.
Hamideh Tahmasebi, Behrouz Zarei Darki
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017 The success of coral reef ecosystems largely depends on mutualistic symbiosis between scleractinian corals and the dinoflagellate photosymbiont Symbiodinium spp.
Guowei Zhou +12 more
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