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SUBMITTER: Marhaver KL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2702503 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Marhaver Kristen L KL Edwards Robert A RA Rohwer Forest F
Environmental microbiology 20080509 9
The coral holobiont is the integrated assemblage of the coral animal, its symbiotic algae, protists, fungi and a diverse consortium of Bacteria and Archaea. Corals are a model system for the study of symbiosis, the breakdown of which can result in disease and mortality. Little is known, however, about viruses that infect corals and their symbionts. Here we present metagenomic analyses of the viral communities associated with healthy and partially bleached specimens of the Caribbean reef-building ...[more]