Comprehensive EST analysis of the symbiotic sea anemone, Anemonia viridis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Coral reef ecosystems are renowned for their diversity and beauty. Their immense ecological success is due to a symbiotic association between cnidarian hosts and unicellular dinoflagellate algae, known as zooxanthellae. These algae are photosynthetic and the cnidarian-zooxanthellae association is based on nutritional exchanges. Maintenance of such an intimate cellular partnership involves many crosstalks between the partners. To better characterize symbiotic relationships between a cnidarian host and its dinoflagellate symbionts, we conducted a large-scale EST study on a symbiotic sea anemone, Anemonia viridis, in which the two tissue layers (epiderm and gastroderm) can be easily separated.

Results

A single cDNA library was constructed from symbiotic tissue of sea

SUBMITTER: Sabourault C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2727540 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature