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A ubiquitous subcuticular bacterial symbiont of a coral predator, the crown-of-thorns starfish, in the Indo-Pacific

BACKGROUND: Population outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci sensu lato; COTS), a primary predator of reef-building corals in the Indo-Pacific Ocean, are a major threat to coral reefs. While biological and ecological knowledge of COTS has been accumulating since the 1960s, li...

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Autores principales: Wada, Naohisa, Yuasa, Hideaki, Kajitani, Rei, Gotoh, Yasuhiro, Ogura, Yoshitoshi, Yoshimura, Dai, Toyoda, Atsushi, Tang, Sen-Lin, Higashimura, Yukihiro, Sweatman, Hugh, Forsman, Zac, Bronstein, Omri, Eyal, Gal, Thongtham, Nalinee, Itoh, Takehiko, Hayashi, Tetsuya, Yasuda, Nina
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/PMC7444263/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32831146
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40168-020-00880-3