Rosental, Benyamin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3974-3296
Kozhekbaeva, Zhanna
Fernhoff, Nathaniel
Tsai, Jonathan M.
Traylor-Knowles, Nikki
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Science Foundation (OCE-1323652)
Burroughs Wellcome Postdoctoral Enrichment Fund (#1012629)
Human Frontier Science Program Organization (LT000591/2014)
Article History
Received: 15 November 2016
Accepted: 20 August 2017
First Online: 29 August 2017
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Fragments of <i>Pocillopora damicornis</i> were obtained from the Monterey Bay Aquarium (MBA) in partnership with the Tropical Coral Propagation program. These corals, which had previously been obtained from illegal shipments, were confiscated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and donated to MBA for propagation and research. <i>A. pallida</i> and also an aposymbiotic <i>A. pallida</i> strain (strain that is raised without <i>Symbiodinium</i>) was kindly provided from J. R. Pringle mariculture facility at Stanford University.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.