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.
Corals –at least in the Caribbean– may be better equipped to tolerate climate change than previously believed, according to recently published work from a team led by researchers at MEEG, Exeter. Follow link to full story by Dr Emma Kennedy (previously-Exeter, now at Griffith University, Australia).
