{"id":1630,"date":"2009-09-23T11:03:02","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T19:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2009-09-23T11:03:02","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T19:03:02","slug":"positive-relationships-of-panamas-corals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2009\/09\/23\/positive-relationships-of-panamas-corals\/","title":{"rendered":"Science in the Tropics &#8211; Positive Relationships of Panama&#8217;s Corals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_1632\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1632\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2009\/09\/coralscuba.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1632 \" title=\"coral scuba\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2009\/09\/coralscuba.jpg\" alt=\"Getting up close with corals (and their symbionts) long enough to do research requires some SCUBA time.\" width=\"450\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2009\/09\/coralscuba.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2009\/09\/coralscuba-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2009\/09\/coralscuba-768x420.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getting up close with corals (and their symbionts) long enough to do research requires some SCUBA time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1631\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1631\" style=\"width: 90px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2009\/09\/sboyer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1631\" title=\"sboyer\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2009\/09\/sboyer.jpg\" alt=\"Shelby Boyer\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2009\/09\/sboyer.jpg 90w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2009\/09\/sboyer-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1631\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelby Boyer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>by Shelby Boyer, Invertebrate Zoology Lab<\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not, heading off to an exotic, remote field site is not uncommon for scientists. For me, this site is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stri.org\/\">Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute<\/a> located on the Pacific Ocean side of Panama. I came all the way here to study corals and their interactions with endosymbiotic algae (zooxanthellae) that live inside of coral tissues. This relationship only occurs in warm, clear tropical waters near the equator.<\/p>\n<p>Zooxanthellae, like all other algae, make energy from sunlight and pass some of that energy to the coral they live inside of. In return the zooxanthellae are provided with a place to live and some nutrients from the coral. When there is a positive benefit for both organisms, scientists call it a mutualism. I am just getting started on my research here and will be updating the blog as it gets going!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Shelby Boyer, Invertebrate Zoology Lab Believe it or not, heading off to an exotic, remote field site is not uncommon for scientists. For me, this site is the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute located on the Pacific Ocean side of Panama. I came all the way here to study corals and their interactions with endosymbiotic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}