...Christabel Y. L. Chan; Kum C. Hiong; Celine Y. L. Choo; Mel V. Boo; Wai P. Wong; Shit F. Chew; Yuen K. Ip ABSTRACT Giant clams contain phototrophic zooxanthellae, and live in nutrient-deficient tropical waters where light is available. We obtained the complete cDNA coding sequence of a homolog...

...Christabel Y. L. Chan; Kum C. Hiong; Mel V. Boo; Celine Y. L. Choo; Wai P. Wong; Shit F. Chew; Yuen K. Ip ABSTRACT Giant clams live in nutrient-poor reef waters of the Indo-Pacific and rely on symbiotic dinoflagellates ( Symbiodinium spp., also known as zooxanthellae) for nutrients...

... of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 Aiptasia pallida nitric oxide peroxynitrite oxidative stress Symbiodinium zooxanthellae coral bleaching Cnidaria dinoflagellate innate immunity programmed cell death necrosis apoptosis symbiosis Many cnidarians symbiotic with the intracellular...

... address: The University of Queensland,Centre for Marine Studies, Cooper Rd, Gehrmann Building (Bldg. 60), St Lucia,Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia (e-mail: [email protected] ) 14 11 2005 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 SOD catalase Photosystem II zooxanthellae...

... protect its zooxanthellae in hospite . Similar results have been observed in other symbiotic organisms, such as the sea anemone Aiptasia pulchella and the scleractinian coral Stylophora pistillata . Molecular or physical interactions between the two symbiotic partners may explain such variations in SOD...

... calcification photosynthesis zooxanthellae bisphosphonate In zooxanthellate scleractinian corals the processes of calcification and photosynthesis are coupled in some unknown way (reviewed by Barnes and Chalker, 1990 ; Gattuso et al., 1999 ). It has been proposed that calcification in these corals...

... in vivo . Such in vivo measurements confirm the production of . OH in both host and algae in illuminated zooxanthel-late anemones, where the amount of . OH in the zooxanthellae is disproportionately large relative to their fractional contribution to the biomass of the symbiosis. In vivo studies using DMSO...