Mixing it up: Multiple symbiont acquisition strategies as an adaptive mechanism in the coral Stylophora pistillata

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Remarkably high and consistent tolerance of a Red Sea coral to acute and chronic thermal stress exposures (2021, unknown): “While symbiont type was not assessed in the present study, previous studies have shown that shallow-water (< 17 m) S. pistillata in this location exclusively harbor Symbiodinium spp./Clade A (Lampert-Karako et al. 2008; Winters et al. 2009; Byler et al. 2013).”
Sexual production of corals for reef restoration in the Anthropocene (2020, background): “These symbionts can be shared via paren tal gametes (i.e. vertical transmission), assimilated solely from the surrounding environment (i.e. horizontal transmission), or acquired through a mixture of both strategies (Byler et al. 2013, Quigley et al. 2018a).”