Sentences with phrase «shuffled symbiont»

And as reported in the discussion on the coral adaptive bleaching hypothesis, coral are always shifting and shuffling their symbionts to maximize photosynthesis to best adapt to changing local microclimates.

In contrast to researchers like Hoegh - Guldberg who emphasizes coral bleaching as a deadly product of global warming, bleaching is a visible stage in a complex set of acclimation mechanisms during which coral expel, shift and shuffle their symbionts, seeking the most beneficial partnership possible.

Furthermore as conditions change, all species can shuffle their symbionts as polyps will expel their current residents and acquire a different type that had been harbored by a neighboring polyp.

Not exact matches

We identified species not known to be associated with thermally tolerant algal Symbiodinium symbionts from clades D, C1 and C15, as well as those not known to be able to change or «shuffle» clades and / or types over time.

And we now know those emergent eco-species can rapidly evolve with changing climates by shuffling and shifting those symbionts.

Symbiont shuffling and shifting is an evolutionary masterpiece that circumvents plodding evolutionary mechanisms of most organisms with long generation times and enables immediate adaptation.

But in that paper he admitted never identifying the symbionts or trying to detect any symbiont shuffling or shifting.

But Hoegh - Guldberg's persistent efforts to discredit the adaptive benefits of symbiont shifting and shuffling, serve as blatant example of why Feynman also argued «Science is the belief in the Ignorance of Experts.