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SUBMITTER: Ochsenkuhn MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6218554 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Communications biology 20181105
Corals are threatened worldwide due to prevalence of disease and bleaching. Recent studies suggest the ability of corals to resist disease is dependent on maintaining healthy microbiomes that span coral tissues and surfaces, the holobiont. Although our understanding of the role endosymbiotic microbes play in coral health has advanced, the role surface-associated microbes and their chemical signatures play in coral health is limited. Using minimally invasive water sampling, we show that the coral ...[more]