[Coral-List] new paper on heat resistant zooxanthellae

[Douglas Fenner]

News article:
Newly discovered algae could save world's coral from climate change.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/2/27/algae-coral-reefs.html

The original paper is open-access:

Hume et al. 2015.  Symbiodinium thermophillum sp. nov., a thermotolerant
symbiotic alga prevalent in corals of the world's hottest sea, the
Persian/Arabian Gulf.  Scientific Reports

http://www.nature.com/srep/2015/150224/srep08562/full/srep08562.html

Cheers,  Doug


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