Specificity in communities of symbiodinium in corals from Johnston Atoll

The diversity of endosymbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium) in corals at Johnston Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean was assessed using both the internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) region of the nuclear rDNA and chloroplast 23S rDNA. More sequences were recovered from corals using the ITS2 primer...

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Main Authors: Stat, Michael, Pochon, X., Cowie, R., Gates, R.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Inter-Research 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15507