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Environmental Symbiont Acquisition May Not Be the Solution to Warming Seas for Reef-Building Corals

BACKGROUND: Coral reefs worldwide are in decline. Much of the mortality can be attributed to coral bleaching (loss of the coral's intracellular photosynthetic algal symbiont) associated with global warming. How corals will respond to increasing oceanic temperatures has been an area of extensive...

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Autores principales: Coffroth, Mary Alice, Poland, Daniel M., Petrou, Eleni L., Brazeau, Daniel A., Holmberg, Jennie C.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2951366/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20949064
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0013258