image: A close-up of a bleached califlower coral (Pocillopora verrucosa) in the central Red Sea in 2015 during the 2015/2016 global coral mass bleaching event. The polyps are translucent, purple color comes from the corals pigments. Shaab Reef, Thuwal, Red Sea, Saudi Arabia. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 16 August, 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]