Sentences with phrase «celled zooxanthellae»

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However, under thermal stress, the accumulation of damaged cells may exceed the increased rate of expulsion of digested zooxanthella.

These researchers consider that this loss of zooxanthellae and the accumulation of damaged cells results in coral bleaching.

This is a multiple - level symbiosis because corals house the entire chloroplast - containing zooxanthellae cells within their tissue.

Corals such as the one depicted below have a symbiosis with multiple single - celled organisms called zooxanthellae.

«Corals live in a symbiotic relationship with zooxanthellae, which are plant - like cells hosted in surface tissues that provide up to 90 % of the energy to the colony,» said Stephen Simpson, a marine biologist at the University of Exeter in the UK, commenting on the study.