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Some like it hot
The heat-tolerant alga Symbiodinium trenchi, a rare species in coral reefs in the Caribbean Sea, had a population boom when the water temperature rose in 2005. The alga inhabited both bleached (shown center) and unbleached (far right) corals.
Credit: LaJeunesse et al./Proceedings of the Royal Society B 2009.


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