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Using Aiptasia as a Model to Study Metabolic Interactions in Cnidarian-Symbiodinium Symbioses

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Host adaptation and unexpected symbiont partners enable reef-building corals to tolerate extreme temperatures

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Ancestral genetic diversity associated with the rapid spread of stress-tolerant coral symbionts in response to Holocene climate change

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Symbiodiniumclades A and D differentially predisposeAcropora cythereato disease andVibriospp. colonization

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Genomes of coral dinoflagellate symbionts highlight evolutionary adaptations conducive to a symbiotic lifestyle

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Investigating the causes and consequences of symbiont shuffling in a multi-partner reef coral symbiosis under environmental change

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AssessingSymbiodiniumdiversity in scleractinian corals via next-generation sequencing-based genotyping of the ITS2 rDNA region

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The Relative Significance of Host–Habitat, Depth, and Geography on the Ecology, Endemism, and Speciation of Coral Endosymbionts in the Genus Symbiodinium

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Juvenile corals can acquire more carbon from high-performance algal symbionts

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Coral disease following massive bleaching in 2005 causes 60% decline in coral cover on reefs in the US Virgin Islands

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Outbreak and persistence of opportunistic symbiotic dinoflagellates during the 2005 Caribbean mass coral 'bleaching' event

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High genetic differentiation and cross-shelf patterns of genetic diversity among Great Barrier Reef populations of Symbiodinium

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(2008) V. M. Weis   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

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A community change in the algal endosymbionts of a scleractinian coral following a natural bleaching event: field evidence of acclimatization

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