[Coral-List] Fwd: corals can eat their zooxanthellae

[Esti Winter]

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From: Esti Winter <esti.winter at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 at 7:10
Subject: Re: [Coral-List] corals can eat their zooxanthellae
To: Douglas Fenner <douglasfennertassi at gmail.com>



Not really new…temp and light stress also induce this
Downs CA, Kramarsky-Winter E, Martinez J, Kushmaro A, Woodley CM, Loya Y,
Ostrander GK. Symbiophagy as a cellular mechanism for coral bleaching.
Autophagy. 2009 Feb;5(2):211-6. doi: 10.4161/auto.5.2.7405. Epub 2009 Feb
13. PMID: 19066451.


On Fri, 25 Aug 2023 at 6:06 Douglas Fenner via Coral-List <
coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:

> Like hard-working farmers, corals cultivate and eat their resident algae
>
>
> https://www.science.org/content/article/hard-working-farmers-corals-cultivate-and-eat-their-resident-algae
>
> Corals have algal friends for dinner
>
> https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02593-7
>
> Note author contact
>
> Reef-building corals farm and feed on their photosynthetic symbionts
>
>  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06442-5
>
> open-access
>
> It sounded like from the popular accounts that the corals only did that
> when the water they were in had zero nutrients in it, they didn't do it in
> low-nutrient water that is typical of tropical reefs in oligotrophic
> waters.  That's what it sounded like at least.
>
> Cheers, Doug
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