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Inter-Specific Coral Chimerism: Genetically Distinct Multicellular Structures Associated with Tissue Loss in Montipora capitata

Montipora white syndrome (MWS) results in tissue-loss that is often lethal to Montipora capitata, a major reef building coral that is abundant and dominant in the Hawai'ian Archipelago. Within some MWS-affected colonies in Kane'ohe Bay, Oahu, Hawai'i, we saw unusual motile multicellul...

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Autores principales: Work, Thierry M., Forsman, Zac H., Szabó, Zoltán, Lewis, Teresa D., Aeby, Greta S., Toonen, Robert J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3145771/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21829541
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022869