mSystems (Jun 2021)

A Phylogeny-Informed Analysis of the Global Coral-Symbiodiniaceae Interaction Network Reveals that Traits Correlated with Thermal Bleaching Are Specific to Symbiont Transmission Mode

  • Timothy D. Swain,
  • Simon Lax,
  • Jack Gilbert,
  • Vadim Backman,
  • Luisa A. Marcelino

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00266-21
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 3

Abstract

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Recent advances have revealed a complex network of interactions between coral and Symbiodiniaceae. Specifically, nonrandom association patterns, which are determined in part by restrictions imposed by symbiont transmission mode, increase the sensitivity of the overall network to thermal stress.