Incidents of coral disease are on the rise. However, in the absence of a surrogate animal host, understanding of the interactions between coral pathogens and their hosts remains relatively limited, ...

Pictured is an early planula larval stage of the sea anemone Aiptasia (cyan nuclei and green stinging cells) preying on a crustacean nauplius (green) of the copepod Tisbe sp. Were the first animals ...

Sea anemones (Aiptasia pulchella) fed 35 S methionine labeled food translocated labeled material to symbiotic zooxanthellae. This uptake of host-derived organic materials by the symbiotic algae is ...

In the quest to develop a model system to study symbiotic corals under stress, an international team led by scientists at Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology sequenced ...

Scientists have long suspected that corals living in very salty water can also tolerate higher water temperatures, but the link has never been verified. Now, KAUST researchers have shown that salinity ...

Microalgae of the dinoflagellate group have engaged in intracellular symbioses with corals since primeval times. Researchers recently discovered that such symbioses depend on the ability of the algae ...

Surprising findings on the development of sea anemones suggest that a predatory lifestyle molded their evolution and had a significant impact on the origin of their nervous system. The researchers ...