which threaten the coral and can result in a loss of the zooxanthellae. Research from the University of Southampton and the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton has found that an imbalance of ...

the international team also found that the oldest zooxanthellae evolved around 160 million years ago, more than doubling the age of the coral/algae symbiotic relationship. According to a press ...

Zooxanthellae like to live in a very narrow ... monitor coral bleaching across the Great Barrier Reef. A recent study found that 93% of coral surveyed was bleached to some degree.

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 ...

Ever-increasing temperatures are stressing out corals' colorful partners called zooxanthellae ... and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have found the stressful conditions are expanding from ...

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.

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 ...

Van Oppen found that in the coral ... although the heat-evolved algae can strengthen the coral against heat, the zooxanthellae might be weaker in other aspects, such as disease resistance.

The grooved brain coral – Diploria labyrinthiformis – is found across the Caribbean and the Pacific. It can grow to about six feet (or two meters) in size and is hard to miss. Coral polyps form a ...

Are such microbial toxins found in corals at the early stages ... that bleaching is the result of high temperature acting on the zooxanthellae or on the bacterial community of the coal holobiont ...

The sun's intense rays, which can sunburn swimmers and divers that flock to these reefs, cause similar damage to coral and zooxanthellae ... The researchers found that some of the corals at ...

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