Alga (IMAGE)

Penn State

Alga

Caption

Corals contain dense populations of round, golden-brown micro-algae commonly referred to as zooxanthellae. A typical coral will have one-to-several-million symbiont cells in an area of tissue the size of a thumbnail.

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Todd C. LaJeunesse

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