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  • Presence of Symbiodinium spp. in macroalgal microhabitats from the southern Great Barrier Reef

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    Venera-Ponton, DE
    Diaz-Pulido, G
    Rodriguez-Lanetty, M
    Hoegh-Guldberg, O
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Diaz-Pulido, Guillermo
    Year published
    2010
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    Coral reefs are highly dependent on the mutualistic symbiosis between reef-building corals and dinoflagellates from the genus Symbiodinium. These dinoflagellates spend part of their life cycle outside the coral host and in the majority of the cases have to re-infect corals each generation. While considerable insight has been gained about Symbiodinium in corals, little is known about the ecology and biology of Symbiodinium in other reef microhabitats. This study documents Symbiodinium associating with benthic macroalgae on the southern Great Barrier Reef, including some Symbiodinium that are genetically close to ...
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    Coral reefs are highly dependent on the mutualistic symbiosis between reef-building corals and dinoflagellates from the genus Symbiodinium. These dinoflagellates spend part of their life cycle outside the coral host and in the majority of the cases have to re-infect corals each generation. While considerable insight has been gained about Symbiodinium in corals, little is known about the ecology and biology of Symbiodinium in other reef microhabitats. This study documents Symbiodinium associating with benthic macroalgae on the southern Great Barrier Reef, including some Symbiodinium that are genetically close to the symbiotic strains from reef-building corals. It is possible that some of these Symbiodinium were in hospite, associated to soritid foraminifera or ciliates; nevertheless, the presence of Symbiodinium C3 and C15 in macroalgal microhabitats may also suggest a potential link between communities of Symbiodinium associating with both coral hosts and macroalgae.
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    Journal Title
    Coral Reefs
    Volume
    29
    Issue
    4
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-010-0666-6
    Copyright Statement
    © 2010 Springer Berlin/Heidelberg. This is an electronic version of an article published in Coral Reefs Volume, Issue, 1-12, 2010. Coral Reefs is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ with the open URL of your article.
    Subject
    Earth sciences
    Environmental sciences
    Biological sciences
    Marine and estuarine ecology (incl. marine ichthyology)
    Phycology (incl. marine grasses)
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/34403
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