Difference between revisions of "Zooxanthella"

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An informal term for yellow-brown, photosynthetic symbionts living in a variety of hosts. The majority of zooxanthellae are dinoflagellates, the name being derived from a genus of symbiotic dinoflagellates. See also symbiosis.