Fig. 1
From: Fish predation on corals promotes the dispersal of coral symbionts
Summary of the Symbiodiniaceae cell densities quantified from coral reef environmental reservoirs in this and other studies. Cell densities reported in this study (all obligate corallivore and grazer/detritivore feces data and some data for facultative corallivore feces, sediments and seawater) represent live cell densities only, based on results from hemocytometry with the cell viability dye, trypan blue. Previously published cell densities for sediment and seawater [22, 35], macroalgae [22], and facultative corallivore feces [14] may include both dead and live cells and were quantified using hemocytometry [14], a combination of flow-cytometry and hemocytometry [35], or quantitative PCR [22]