The coral symbionts are reclassified into a family of genera

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1. Story
2. A systematic revision splits what had been treated as the single genus Symbiodinium, informally divided into clades A to I, into a family, Symbiodiniaceae, containing several genera — among them Cladocopium and the heat-tolerant Durusdinium. The revision matters beyond nomenclature: the lineages are separated by an evolutionary distance comparable to that between families of other organisms, so treating "zooxanthellae" as one interchangeable partner had been obscuring the very differences in thermal tolerance that determine whether a coral bleaches.
3. Knowledge
4. Zooxanthellae (Symbiodiniaceae)
5. Symbiont shuffling and thermal tolerance
6. The coral symbionts are reclassified into a family of genera
7. Connections
8. Zooxanthellae (Symbiodiniaceae)
9. Symbiont shuffling and thermal tolerance
10. Reef-building corals (Scleractinia)
11. Reef-building corals (Scleractinia)
12. Coral calcification
13. The first global mass bleaching event
14. The coral symbionts are reclassified into a family of genera
15. Coral bleaching
16. Coral calcification
17. The coral symbionts are reclassified into a family of genera
18. Evidence
19. The coral endosymbionts formerly assigned to the single genus Symbiodinium and to clades A-I constitute a family of several genera, including Cladocopium and the thermally tolerant Durusdinium, separated by deep evolutionary distances. V55 verification basis: not consulted; the revision and the genus names are stated from the producing model's knowledge, and the family's estimated age of origin is not quoted precisely because it could not be checked.