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Estimating the potential for adaptation of corals to climate warming.
PloS one - 18 Mar 2010
Császár Nikolaus B M, Ralph Peter J, Frankham Richard, Berkelmans Ray, van Oppen Madeleine J H
Abstract excerpt
The persistence of tropical coral reefs is threatened by rapidly increasing climate warming, causing a functional breakdown of the obligate symbiosis between corals and their algal photosymbionts (Symbiodinium) through a process known as coral bleaching. Yet the potential of the coral-algal symbiosis to genetically adapt in an evolutionary sense to warming oceans is unknown. Using a quantitative genetics...
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