New Mutant Coral Symbiont Alga Able to Switch Symbiosis Off (IMAGE)

Tohoku University

New Mutant Coral Symbiont Alga Able to Switch Symbiosis Off

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Symbiosis experiments using a mutant algal strain isolated in this study. The addition of a nutrient can lead to symbiosis (modified from Ishii et al.)

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Shinichiro Maruyama

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