Figure 3. The clade D Symbiodinium sp. harbored by Hawaiian Montipora (a) ITS2-DGGE fingerprinting produced three diagnostic homoduplex bands from each sample containing this Symbiodinium.

Designated D1-4-6, band “1” is ancestral while bands “4” and “6” represent derived sequence variants abundant in the genome. (b) All three dominant sequences were recovered multiple times from the bacterial cloning/sequencing from the sample 79, Figure 1. A profile matching Symbiodinium D1-4-6 was found in a few Pocillopora from the Andaman Sea, northeastern Indian Ocean and was also recovered from Pocillopora colonies in the aquarium trade.