Coral life history and symbiosis: functional genomic resources for two reef building Caribbean corals, Acropora palmata and Montastraea faveolata

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Schwarz, Jodi A.;Brokstein, Peter B.;Voolstra, Christian;Terry, Astrid Y.;Miller, David J.;Szmant , Alina M.;Coffroth, Mary Alice;Medina, Monica
David Miller
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Scleractinian corals are the foundation of reef ecosystems in tropical marine environments. Their great success is due to interactions with endosymbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium spp.), with which they are obligately symbiotic. To develop a foundation for studying coral biology and coral symbiosis, we have constructed a set of cDNA libraries and generated and annotated ESTs from two species of corals, Acropora palmata and Montastraea faveolata.

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BMC Genomics

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1471-2164

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BioMed Central

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10.1186/1471-2164-9-97