Landscape ecology of algal symbionts creates variation in episodes of coral bleaching
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Research has shown that reef-building corals, particularly the dominant Montastraea annularis and Montastraea faveolata, host several multi-species communities of Symbiodinium. Their composition follows levels of environmental irradiance, suggesting that physiological acclimatization is not the only way corals have of coping with environmental heterogeneity. An analysis of a natural episode of coral bleaching indicated that some corals with additional symbionts were protected from bleaching.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1997
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Conventional taxonomy obscures deep divergence between Pacific and Atlantic corals
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The assumption that genera and families spanning the two provinces belong to the same lineages is proved incorrect based on analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear genes. Pervasive morphological convergence at the family level has obscured the evolutionary distinctiveness of Atlantic corals.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
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Thermal adaptation in reef coral symbionts
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Some species of corals have adapted to higher temperatures by hosting specifically adapted Symbiodinium, a vital symbiotic algae. Observations done on other coral species indicate that symbioses recombination may be one mechanism by which corals adapt, in part, to global warming.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
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