• DOI:10.1146/ANNUREV.ECOLSYS.34.011802.132417
Corpus ID: 35278104

Flexibility and Specificity in Coral-Algal Symbiosis: Diversity, Ecology, and Biogeography of Symbiodinium

@article{Baker2003FlexibilityAS,
  title={Flexibility and Specificity in Coral-Algal Symbiosis: Diversity, Ecology, and Biogeography of Symbiodinium},
  author={A. Baker},
  journal={Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics},
  year={2003},
  volume={34},
  pages={661-689}
}

A. Baker, A. Baker

Published 2003

Biology

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

▪ Abstract Reef corals (and other marine invertebrates and protists) are hosts to a group of exceptionally diverse dinoflagellate symbionts in the genus Symbiodinium. These symbionts are critical components of coral reef ecosystems whose loss during stress-related “bleaching” events can lead to mass mortality of coral hosts and associated collapse of reef ecosystems. Molecular studies have shown these partnerships to be more flexible than previously thought, with different hosts and symbionts… CONTINUE READING

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