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Effects of thermal stress on amount, composition, and antibacterial properties of coral mucus
The surface mucus layer of reef-building corals supports feeding, sediment clearing, and protection from pathogenic invaders. As much as half of the fixed carbon supplied by the corals’ photosynthetic symbionts is incorporated into expelled mucus. It is therefore reasonable to expect that coral blea...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6497039/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31106065 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6849 |