Salinity conveys thermotolerance of the cnidarian - alga symbiosis

01 December, 2017

In his debut masterpiece Hagen Gegner and colleagues report the remarkable observation that high salinities convey thermotolerance in Aiptasia. This finding may help explaining the previously reported thermotolerance of corals from highly environments such as the Red Sea or the Arabian Gulf.
Check out the article in Biology Open!

http://bio.biologists.org/content/early/2017/11/24/bio.028878