{"id":6609,"date":"2017-07-29T05:57:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T05:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=6609"},"modified":"2017-07-29T05:57:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T05:57:39","slug":"researchers-create-superalgae-to-protect-worlds-corals-from-bleaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/researchers-create-superalgae-to-protect-worlds-corals-from-bleaching.html","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Create Superalgae to Protect World\u2019s Corals from Bleaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of New South Wales, Australia, have identified genes in algae that could allow them to make genetically engineered, heat tolerant algae that can withstand higher temperatures and continue their symbiotic relationships with corals.<\/p>\n<p>These microalgae, called <em>Symbiodinium<\/em>, or <em>zooxanthellae<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6610 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Symbiodinium-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Symbiodinium-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Symbiodinium-45x45.png 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/em>, are a genus of primary producers found in corals that are essential to coral survival.<\/p>\n<p>These algae use light energy from the sun to photosynthesize and produce molecules that feed the corals, which is necessary for corals to grow and form coral reefs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-4715586\/Researchers-develop-superalgae-protect-world-s-corals.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of New South Wales, Australia, have identified genes in algae that could allow them to make genetically engineered, heat tolerant algae that can withstand higher temperatures and continue their symbiotic relationships with corals. These microalgae, called Symbiodinium, or zooxanthellae, are a genus of primary producers found in corals that are essential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,615,576],"tags":[647,136],"class_list":["post-6609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae","category-research-2","category-university-research","tag-algae","tag-algae-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6611,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609\/revisions\/6611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}