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Coral bleaching under thermal stress: putative involvement of host/symbiont recognition mechanisms
BACKGROUND: Coral bleaching can be defined as the loss of symbiotic zooxanthellae and/or their photosynthetic pigments from their cnidarian host. This major disturbance of reef ecosystems is principally induced by increases in water temperature. Since the beginning of the 1980s and the onset of glob...
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BioMed Central
2009
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2728513/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19653882 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6793-9-14 |