{"id":27947,"date":"2018-10-23T17:16:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T11:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=27947"},"modified":"2018-10-23T17:16:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T11:46:31","slug":"coral-reefs-could-survive-global-warming-says-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/coral-reefs-could-survive-global-warming-says-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Coral reefs could survive global warming, says study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/corals-reefs-could-survive-global-warming-says-study\/article24681835.ece\">Coral reefs could survive global warming, says study<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Scientists found that coral-algal partnerships have endured numerous climate change events since the age of dinosaurs.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Their relationship with algae has endured numerous climate change events in the past.<\/li>\n<li>The relationship between corals and the mutualistic micro-algae that enable them to build reefs is considerably older and more diverse than previously assumed, according to a study published in the journal\u00a0<em>Current Biology<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Past estimates placed the initiation of these symbiotic relationships at 50 to 65 million years ago.<\/li>\n<li>The micro-algae, commonly called zooxanthellae, lives inside the cells of corals, allowing them to acquire energy from sunlight and to build the massive, economically valuable reef formations.<\/li>\n<li>Finding that the origin of the algal symbionts corresponds to major increases in the abundance and diversity of reef-building corals implies that the partnership with Symbiodiniaceae was one of the major reasons for the success of modern corals.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The team used genetic evidence \u2014 including DNA sequences, phylogenetic analyses and genome comparisons \u2014 to calculate the micro-algae\u2019s approximate age of origin.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coral reefs could survive global warming, says study News: Scientists found that coral-algal partnerships have endured numerous climate change events since the age of dinosaurs. Important facts: Their relationship with algae has endured numerous climate change events in the past. The relationship between corals and the mutualistic micro-algae that enable them to build reefs is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/coral-reefs-could-survive-global-warming-says-study\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coral reefs could survive global warming, says study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704773499},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}