Coral cells contain dense populations of microalgae that provide them with nutrients (pictured here under ... microscope). When faced with hot water temperatures and low iron levels, these ...

To work around their photosensitivity, researchers developed a custom light-sheet microscope (the L-SPI ... In coral bleaching, corals expel their symbiotic algae and become more susceptible ...

The reef had just been “bleached”—symbiotic algae that live in each tiny coral ... the Benthic Underwater Microscope, the first instrument powerful enough to get real-time views of these ...

in that they're the only ones whose embryos have an algae living inside of them. Scientists are now hoping that a better understanding of this symbiotic relationship could lead to new drugs for ...

You are more likely to take a trip to the Moon than to see a microbe called Legendrea loyezae under a microscope ... something known as symbiosis. For example, they can harbor green algae inside ...

Generally, this symbiotic relationship depends on algal photosynthesis supplying the energy needs of the cnidarians, while the cnidarians protect the algae from grazing. But it hasn’t been clear how ...

Because of some six weeks of unusually warm waters, branching corals there bleached en masse, in which they lose the symbiotic algae living in them that supply most of their food. Receive a weekly ...