Team reports new evidence that microbial algae in Caribbean came from the Pacific; could do long-term damage

Monday, June 1, 2015 - 14:00 in Earth & Climate

University of Delaware's Daniel "Tye" Pettay reports new evidence that Symbiodinium trenchii (S. trenchii), a stress-tolerant zooxanthellae alga found in coral communities across the Greater Caribbean, is actually an introduced species from the Indio-Pacific Ocean.

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