Community composition of coral-associated Symbiodiniaceae differs across fine-scale environmental gradients in Kāne‘ohe Bay

The survival of most reef-building corals is dependent upon a symbiosis between the coral and the community of Symbiodiniaceae. Montipora capitata, one of the main reef-building coral species in Hawai'i, is known to host a diversity of symbionts, but it remains unclear how they change spatially...

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Main Authors: Mariana Rocha de Souza, Carlo Caruso, Lupita Ruiz-Jones, Crawford Drury, Ruth Gates, Robert J. Toonen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2022-09-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.212042