A large-scale study of Caribbean coral has yielded discoveries on the pairing process between an endangered coral and the microscopic symbiotic algae they rely on for survival. See
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.
