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Ancestral genetic diversity associated with the rapid spread of stress-tolerant coral symbionts in response to Holocene climate change.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 19 Apr 2016
Hume Benjamin C C, Voolstra Christian R, Arif Chatchanit, D'Angelo Cecilia, Burt John A, Eyal Gal, Loya Yossi, Wiedenmann Jörg
Abstract excerpt
Coral communities in the Persian/Arabian Gulf (PAG) withstand unusually high salinity levels and regular summer temperature maxima of up to ∼35 °C that kill conspecifics elsewhere. Due to the recent formation of the PAG and its subsequent shift to a hot climate, these corals have had only <6,000 y to adapt to these extreme conditions and can therefore inform on how coral reefs may respond to global warming. One...
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