The Spring 2025 Biology Colloquium Series continues this Friday with a seminar by Margaret McFall-Ngai, Faculty Associate at Caltech and Senior Staff Scientist at Carnegie…
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CSUN biologists find that hosts need the right symbiont when the heat is on
One of the best-known beneficial symbioses in the ocean is the mutualism between corals and photosynthetic algae. Coral polyps provide shelter and nutrients for algae…
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CSUN biologists test whether coral symbionts can beat the heat
Climate change has warmed ocean temperatures, increasing the risk and frequency of coral bleaching, a stress response in which corals expel the colorful algal symbionts…
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