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The Symbiodinaceae are paradoxical in that they play a fundamental role in the success of scleractinian corals, but also in their dismissal when under stress. In the past decades, the discovery of the endosymbiont’s genetic and functional diversity has led people to hope that some coral species can survive bleaching events by associating with a stress-resistant symbiont that can become dominant when seawater temperatures increase. The variety of individual responses encouraged us to scrutinize each species individually to gauge its resilience to future changes. Here, we analyse the temporal variation in the Symbiodinaceae community associated with  Leptoria phrygia , a common scleractinian coral from the Indo-Pacific. Coral colonies were sampled from two distant reef sites located in southern Taiwan that differ in temperature regimes, exemplifying a ‘variable site’ (VS) and a ‘steady site’ (SS). We investigated changes in the relative abundance of the dominant symbiont and its physiology every 3–4 months from 2016–2017. At VS, 11 of the 12 colonies were dominated by the stress-resistant  Durusdinium  spp. (>90% dominance) and only one colony exhibited co-dominance between  Durusdinium  spp. and  Cladocopium  spp. Every colony displayed high photochemical efficiency across all sampling periods, while showing temporal differences in symbiont density and chlorophyll  a  concentration. At SS, seven colonies out of 13 were dominated by  Cladocopium  spp., five presented co-dominance between  Durusdinium  spp./ Cladocopium  spp. and only one was dominated by  Durusdinium  spp. Colonies showed temporal differences in photochemical efficiency and chlorophyll  a  concentration during the study period. Our results suggest that VS colonies responded physiologically better to high temperature variability by associating with  Durusdinium  spp., while in SS there is still inter-colonial variability, a feature that might be advantageous for coping with different environmental changes.

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Temporal variation and photochemical efficiency of species in Symbiodinaceae associated with coral Leptoria phrygia (Scleractinia; Merulinidae) exposed to contrasting temperature regimes