Experimentally Induced Bleaching in the Sea Anemone Exaiptasia Supports Glucose as a Main Metabolite Associated with Its Symbiosis

Figure 2

Glucose levels measured in symbiotic and bleached anemones. Animals in the symbiotic state were maintained at two light conditions (HL = 250 μmol photons cm⁻² s⁻¹; LL = 50 μmol photons cm⁻² s⁻¹). Bleached animals were maintained in the dark. Columns represent the average of three independent determinations ± SD (bars). Values are in μg g⁻¹ of wet mass. Small letters group treatments that were similar for each metabolite (Tukey HSD, ). AS = symbiotic anemones; A-Bl = bleached anemones.