The holobiont paper

Friends, today another paper from my Palau coral project is out! The postdoc on the project, Cas, led an analysis of how different corals respond to high temperatures. You probably remember that we found 3 cryptic lineages of Porites corals at our study sites. Cas wanted to find out how those lineages differ and how each one handles the environmental conditions they live in. As it turns out, each lineage has a different strategy - and it's not just the corals themselves. The algal symbionts and microbial communities that live inside them contribute to thermal tolerance, too. It's a long, detailed paper. You can read our work here in Global Change Biology: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gcb.17578