Multiple partners not the only way for corals to stay cool

Friday, January 20, 2012 - 09:31 in Biology & Nature

Recent experiments conducted at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) produced striking results, showing for the first time that corals hosting a single type of "zooxanthellae" can have different levels of thermal tolerance – a feature that was only known previously for corals with a mix of zooxanthellae.

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