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The biology of coral metamorphosis: Molecular responses of larvae to inducers of settlement and metamorphosis

Date

Authors

Grasso, Lauretta

Negri, A.P.

Foret, Sylvain

Saint, Robert

Hayward, David

Miller, David J.

Ball, Eldon

Publisher

Academic Press

Abstract

Like many other cnidarians, corals undergo metamorphosis from a motile planula larva to a sedentary polyp. In some sea anemones such as Nematostella this process is a smooth transition requiring no extrinsic stimuli, but in many corals it is more complex

Keywords

Keywords: Acropora; animal cell; article; controlled study; coral; ectoderm; gene expression; in situ hybridization; larval development; metamorphosis; microarray analysis; molecular mechanics; nonhuman; nucleotide sequence; priority journal; Amino Acid Sequence; A Acropora; Coral; LWamide; Metamorphosis; Microarray; Settlement

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/68376

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Developmental Biology

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1016/j.ydbio.2011.02.010

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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