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Skeletal light-scattering accelerates bleaching response in reef-building corals

BACKGROUND: At the forefront of ecosystems adversely affected by climate change, coral reefs are sensitive to anomalously high temperatures which disassociate (bleaching) photosynthetic symbionts (Symbiodinium) from coral hosts and cause increasingly frequent and severe mass mortality events. Suscep...

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Autores principales: Swain, Timothy D., DuBois, Emily, Gomes, Andrew, Stoyneva, Valentina P., Radosevich, Andrew J., Henss, Jillian, Wagner, Michelle E., Derbas, Justin, Grooms, Hannah W., Velazquez, Elizabeth M., Traub, Joshua, Kennedy, Brian J., Grigorescu, Arabela A., Westneat, Mark W., Sanborn, Kevin, Levine, Shoshana, Schick, Mark, Parsons, George, Biggs, Brendan C., Rogers, Jeremy D., Backman, Vadim, Marcelino, Luisa A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4800776/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26996922
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12898-016-0061-4