This article is more than 9 years old. Coral bleaching results when corals expel their colourful endosymbionts, the photosynthetic zooxanthellae, leaving the still living, but white, coral ...

Corals live in symbiosis with microalgae, called zooxanthellae, which provide the coral with nutrients and their incredible colors. When the surrounding waters become too warm, diseased ...

A research group has demonstrated that corals more actively digest and expel damaged symbiotic zooxanthellae under conditions of thermal stress, and that this is likely to be a mechanism that ...

The fluorescent pigments absorb damaging wavelengths of light and emit it as pink or purple light, protecting the single-celled organisms called zooxanthellae that live symbiotically inside coral.

Most of those carbonate reefs are bone white on their own, but coral gets its beautiful colors from photosynthetic algae called zooxanthellae, which live within the cells of the coral animal.

They depend on single-celled algae called zooxanthellae, which live within the coral polyps. The coral animal and the associated zooxanthellae depend on each other for survival in a symbiotic ...

The fluorescent pigments protect corals’ zooxanthellae—symbiotic algae which coral depend upon for survival—from too much sun. But why would deep water coral, which reside far from the sun ...

A team of researchers from the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) have developed an interactive global map of corals and zooxanthellae as part of a hybrid web application titled GeoSymbio.

ZOOXANTHELLÆ have been recorded from the visceral mass of Tridacna by Yonge 1, who assigned to them together with those of the mantle edge a very significant role in nutrition. According to this ...

Yonge, "Studies in the Physiology of Corals", I. Feeding Mechanisms and Food. Sci. Repts., G. Barrier Reef Expedition, Brit. Mus., 1, 13; 1930. Yonge and Nicholls II ...