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Reciprocal Symbiont Sharing in the Lodging Mutualism between Walking Corals and Sipunculans

Solitary scleractinian corals of the genera Heterocyathus and Heteropsammia inhabit soft marine bottoms without attaching to hard substrata. The corallums of these genera contain a coiled cavity inhabited by a sipunculan that roams the seafloor, carrying the host coral with it. The coral serves as a...

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Autores principales: Igawa, Momoko, Hata, Hiroki, Kato, Makoto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5224867/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28072881
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0169825