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Geographic variation in the damselfish-red alga cultivation mutualism in the Indo-West Pacific

BACKGROUND: On coral reefs, damselfish defend their territories from invading herbivores and maintain algal turfs, from which they harvest filamentous algae. In southern Japan, intensive weeding of indigestible algae by Stegastes nigricans results in overgrowth by one filamentous alga, Polysiphonia...

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Autores principales: Hata, Hiroki, Watanabe, Katsutoshi, Kato, Makoto
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2905425/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20565824
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-10-185