"Without algae there to increase its food supply, the coral can die. This makes it particularly critical to understand the symbiotic mechanism now, as coral communities are increasingly jeopardized." ...

In this new study, the researchers—including Carnegie’s Yun Bai and Xiaobin Zheng—deployed sophisticated bioinformatic and molecular biology tools to reveal the early steps of symbiosis, during which ...

You talk in your book about the symbiosis that you see on a coral reef. Tell me about that. Coral have this amazing symbiosis with algae. They have algae that lives in their tissues.

Coral cannot survive on its own for long. It needs to create a symbiotic relationship with algae to survive. Algae provides approximately 90 percent of the energy coral needs, which means that ...

The mutually beneficial relationship between algae and modern corals -- which provides algae with shelter, gives coral reefs their colors and supplies both organisms with nutrients -- began more ...

NMMBA deputy director Chen Chii-shiarng (陳啟祥) said the living mechanism that stimulates the growth of coral was unique because it is critical for the growth and productivity of the marine animal, but ...

May 13 (UPI) --To better protect coral reefs, scientists suggest an improved understanding of the coral-algae relationship is necessary. During coral bleaching events, environmental stress ...

It would seem that the symbiotic relationship between coral and algae is 100 million years older than previously believed. That's what's said by a bit of new research published this week in the ...

Microalgae are single-celled microbes that can carry out photosynthesis. Some live in symbiosis with animals, like dinoflagellates that live in coral. This mutually beneficial relationship is an ...

Coral and its symbiotic algae Todd C. LaJeunesse Coral isn’t really a plant, an animal or a mineral. Instead, it’s more of a complex relationship between all three. Researchers believed that ...