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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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