An improved primer set and amplification protocol with increased specificity and sensitivity targeting the Symbiodinium ITS2 region

Sugar enrichment provides evidence for a role of nitrogen fixation in coral bleaching

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Host specificity of Symbiodinium variants revealed by an ITS2 metahaplotype approach

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Biogeography and molecular diversity of coral symbionts in the genus Symbiodinium around the Arabian Peninsula

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Population genetics of reef coral endosymbionts (Symbiodinium , Dinophyceae)

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(2017) Terry P. Hughes et al.   NATURE

Symbiodinium glynnii sp. nov., a species of stress-tolerant symbiotic dinoflagellates from pocilloporid and montiporid corals in the Pacific Ocean

(2017) Drew C. Wham et al.   PHYCOLOGIA

Bacterial community dynamics are linked to patterns of coral heat tolerance

(2017) Maren Ziegler et al.   Nature Communications

Rapid adaptive responses to climate change in corals

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Beneficial Microorganisms for Corals (BMC): Proposed Mechanisms for Coral Health and Resilience

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Using high-throughput sequencing of ITS2 to describe Symbiodinium metacommunities in St. John, US Virgin Islands

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Viral to metazoan marine plankton nucleotide sequences from the Tara Oceans expedition

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Insights into the Coral Microbiome: Underpinning the Health and Resilience of Reef Ecosystems

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Guiding coral reef futures in the Anthropocene

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Exploring the Symbiodinium rare biosphere provides evidence for symbiont switching in reef-building corals

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Evidence for a role of viruses in the thermal sensitivity of coral photosymbionts

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Ancestral genetic diversity associated with the rapid spread of stress-tolerant coral symbionts in response to Holocene climate change

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Horizontal transmission of Symbiodinium cells between adult and juvenile corals is aided by benthic sediment

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The symbiotic life of Symbiodinium in the open ocean within a new species of calcifying ciliate (Tiarina sp.)

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Nitrogen cycling in corals: the key to understanding holobiont functioning?

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Symbiodinium thermophilum sp. nov., a thermotolerant symbiotic alga prevalent in corals of the world's hottest sea, the Persian/Arabian Gulf

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Open science resources for the discovery and analysis of Tara Oceans data

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Change in algal symbiont communities after bleaching, not prior heat exposure, increases heat tolerance of reef corals

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Community dynamics and physiology ofSymbiodiniumspp. before, during, and after a coral bleaching event

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AssessingSymbiodiniumdiversity in scleractinian corals via next-generation sequencing-based genotyping of the ITS2 rDNA region

(2014) Chatchanit Arif et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

ExploringSymbiodiniumdiversity and host specificity inAcroporacorals from geographical extremes of Western Australia with 454 amplicon pyrosequencing

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Ecologically differentiated stress-tolerant endosymbionts in the dinoflagellate genusSymbiodinium(Dinophyceae) Clade D are different species

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Multi-gene analysis ofSymbiodiniumdinoflagellates: a perspective on rarity, symbiosis, and evolution

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Corals from the Persian/Arabian Gulf as models for thermotolerant reef-builders: Prevalence of clade C3 Symbiodinium, host fluorescence and ex situ temperature tolerance

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The Diversity of Coral Reefs: What Are We Missing?

(2011) Laetitia Plaisance et al.   PLoS One

Projecting Coral Reef Futures Under Global Warming and Ocean Acidification

(2011) J. M. Pandolfi et al.   SCIENCE

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(2010) Xavier Pochon et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

A new Symbiodinium clade (Dinophyceae) from soritid foraminifera in Hawai’i

(2010) Xavier Pochon et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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