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A tentacle for every occasion: comparing the hunting tentacles and sweeper tentacles, used for territorial competition, in the coral Galaxea fascicularis

BACKGROUND: Coral reefs are among the most diverse, complex and densely populated marine ecosystems. To survive, morphologically simple and sessile cnidarians have developed mechanisms to catch prey, deter predators and compete with adjacent corals for space, yet the mechanisms underlying these func...

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Autores principales: Yosef, Oshra, Popovits, Yotam, Malik, Assaf, Ofek-Lalzer, Maya, Mass, Tali, Sher, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7430897/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32770938
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-020-06952-w