[Coral-List] three coral articles in Nature

[Douglas Fenner]

Coral symbiosis is a three-player game.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00949-6?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20190404&utm_source=nature_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20190404&sap-outbound-id=BF0759D6AB0E3F36C521D0C8B366FC0DBDB1BC53


open-access

A widespread coral-infecting apicomplexan with chlorophyll biosynthesis
genes

A newly identified lineage of apicomplexans, named corallicolids, are
intracellular symbionts of many coral species, and possesses a plastid that
retains genes for chlorophyll biosynthesis despite lacking photosystem
genes.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1072-z?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20190404&utm_source=nature_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20190404&sap-outbound-id=BF0759D6AB0E3F36C521D0C8B366FC0DBDB1BC53


abstract is open-access.  Check author contact.

Global warming impairs stock-recruitment dynamics of corals.

 A regional-scale shift in the relationships between adult stock and
recruitment of corals occurred along the Great Barrier Reef, following mass
bleaching events in 2016 and 2017 caused by global warming.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1081-y?WT.ec_id=NATURE-201904&sap-outbound-id=BF0759D6AB0E3F36C521D0C8B366FC0DBDB1BC53


Abstract is open-access.  See author contact.

Cheers, Doug
-- 
Douglas Fenner
Ocean Associates, Inc. Contractor
NOAA Fisheries Service
Pacific Islands Regional Office
Honolulu
and:
Consultant
PO Box 7390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799  USA

New book "The Uninhabitable Earth"  First sentence: "It is much, much worse
than you think."
Read first (short) chapter open access:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/read-a-chapter-from-the-uninhabitable-earth-a-dire-warning-on-climate-change

Want a Green New Deal?  Here's a better one.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/want-a-green-new-deal-heres-a-better-one/2019/02/24/2d7e491c-36d2-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html?utm_term=.a3fc8337cbf8

Nations falling short of emissions cuts set by Paris climate pact, analysis
finds
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/nations-falling-short-emissions-cuts-set-paris-climate-pact-analysis-finds?utm_campaign=news_daily_2018-11-28&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=2515903