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Variation in Symbiodinium ITS2 Sequence Assemblages among Coral Colonies 1 1 1 2 3 Michael Stat *, Christopher E. Bird , Xavier Pochon , Luis Chasqui , Leonard J. Chauka , Gregory T. 1 4 5 1 1 Concepcion , Dan Logan , Misaki Takabayashi , Robert J. Toonen , Ruth D. Gates 1 Hawai’i Institute of Marine Biology, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawai’i, Kane’ohe, Hawai’i, United States of America, 2 Instituto de ¯ ´ ´ Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras ‘‘Jose Benito Vives de Andreis’’ INVEMAR. A.A., Santa Marta, Colombia, 3 Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Tanzania, 4 School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, 5 Department of Marine Science, University of Hawai’i at Hilo, Hilo, Hawai’i, United States of America Abstract Endosymbiotic dinoflagellates in the genus Symbiodinium are fundamentally important to the biology of scleractinian corals, as well as to a variety of other marine organisms. The genus Symbiodinium is genetically and functionally diverse and the taxonomic nature of the union between Symbiodinium and corals is implicated as a key trait determining the environmental tolerance of the symbiosis. Surprisingly, the question of how Symbiodinium diversity partitions within a species across spatial scales of meters to kilometers has received little attention, but