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Citizen science via social media revealed conditions of symbiosis between a marine gastropod and an epibiotic alga

Environmental factors promote symbiosis, but its mechanism is not yet well understood. The alga Pseudocladophora conchopheria grows only on the shell of an intertidal gastropod Lunella correensis, and these species have a close symbiotic relationship which the alga reduces heat stress of the gastrop...

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Autores principales: Kagawa, Osamu, Uchida, Shota, Yamazaki, Daishi, Osawa, Yumiko, Ito, Shun, Chiba, Satoshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7665050/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33184315
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74946-5