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SUBMITTER: Pettay DT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4475936 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pettay D Tye DT Wham Drew C DC Smith Robin T RT Iglesias-Prieto Roberto R LaJeunesse Todd C TC
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20150601 24
Human-induced environmental changes have ushered in the rapid decline of coral reef ecosystems, particularly by disrupting the symbioses between reef-building corals and their photosymbionts. However, escalating stressful conditions enable some symbionts to thrive as opportunists. We present evidence that a stress-tolerant "zooxanthella" from the Indo-Pacific Ocean, Symbiodinium trenchii, has rapidly spread to coral communities across the Greater Caribbean. In marked contrast to populations from ...[more]