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 ...

a color not as easily used by zooxanthellae for photosynthesis? “We and others were long puzzled by the fact,” Wiedenmann wrote in an email. But when the team looked more closely, they found ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Coral have been found that are more than 4,000 years old ... So they invite in single-celled zooxanthellae, which lives within their tissue and does the work for them. The algae gets a safe ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Corals live in a mutually symbiotic relationship with photosynthetic algae, called zooxanthellae. Corals make up the hard calcium carbonate structure of coral reefs and provide protection and a ...

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 ...

“Zooxanthellae is symbiotic algae that lives ... so they asked him to update it and reapply. He found that he had more ideas and more understanding of his work when he was teaching others.