Spatiotemporal profiling of a dominant coral's photo-endosymbiotic assemblage indicates that acclimation is supported by phenotypic plasticity of single cells
C. J. Anthony, C. Lock, B. M. Taylor, B. Bentlage
The paper quantifies phenotypic variance in coral endosymbionts under natural conditions and finds that individual cell plasticity, not community shifts or density changes, drives phenotypic variation.
bioRxiv · Dec 24, 2022Ecology