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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |