Hawaiian corals choose algae symbionts to suit depth and temperature

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A study published in Royal Society Open Science has found that Montipora capitata populates with algal symbionts based on environmental factors. Scientists from the Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology and the Chaminade University of Honolulu already knew that the reef-building coral hosted a diversity of symbionts, but they wanted to test if the same coral…
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