image: Tip of a living single polyp of Acropora humilis. Visible are the tentacles of the polyp. Brownish color results from the associated Symbiodnium. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the August 16, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by M.A. Ochsenkühn at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, and colleagues was titled, " The role of floridoside in osmoadaptation of coral algal endosymbionts to high-salinity condition" view more
Credit: [Credit: Till Röthig, coral reef scientist]