Symbiodinium thermophilum, a novel species of thermotolerant symbiotic alga in corals of the world's hottest sea

New research from researchers at Southampton, New York and Exeter universities suggests that the extreme thermotolerance exhibited by some corals of the Persian Gulf –the world's hottest sea– may be due to the presence of a novel species of endosymbiont, Symbiodinium thermophilum. The full article appears this week in the journal Nature Scientific Reports.