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First published online March 8, 2005
Journal of Experimental Biology 208, 843-848 (2005)
Published by The Company of Biologists 2005
doi: 10.1242/jeb.01496
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UV incites diverse levels of DNA breaks in different cellular compartments of a branching coral species

Rinkevich Baruch*, Nanthawan Avishai and Claudette Rabinowitz

National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Tel-Shikmona, PO Box 8030, Haifa 31080, Israel



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Fig. 1. Fluorescence emitted by algal-free coral nuclei (A–C), in hospite nuclei and cells (D–F) and coral-free algal nuclei and cells (G–I). A, D, G, DAPI (blue) for nuclei, chlorophyll auto fluorescent (red) for algal cells and 6-CFDA (6-carboxylfluorescein diacetate; green) for animal cells' cytoplasm. The holobiont state reveal coral cells with a single algal cell (D, no. 4), two algal cells in a single unit (D, numbers 1–3); three algal cells in a single unit (E) and sometimes more (C.R., unpublished). B, E, H ethidium bromide fluorescent intact nuclei; C, F, I comets, stained by ethidium bromide. DAPI was observed with Olympus filters U-MNU (excitation 360–370 nm); 6-CFDA labeling was observed with Olympus filter U-MW1B (excitation 460–490 nm). Scale bar (fitted all figures A–I, 10 µm).

 


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Fig. 2. UV irradiated coral, algal and holobiont cell fractions. Percentage of increased genotoxicity as compared with the corresponding controls. Responses to three different doses are depicted for the parameters tail extent and tail extent moment.

 


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Fig. 3. UV irradiated (8.1 kJ m–2) coral, algal and holobiont cell fractions: percentage of increased genotoxicity (immediately and 1 h following irradiation) as compared with the corresponding controls.

 





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