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A specific mix of generalists: bacterial symbionts in Mediterranean Ircinia spp.
FEMS microbiology ecology - 1 Mar 2012
Erwin Patrick M, López-Legentil Susanna, González-Pech Raúl, Turon Xavier
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Microbial symbionts form abundant and diverse components of marine sponge holobionts, yet the ecological and evolutionary factors that dictate their community structure are unresolved. Here, we characterized the bacterial symbiont communities of three sympatric host species in the genus Ircinia from the NW Mediterranean Sea, using electron microscopy and replicated 16S rRNA gene sequence clone libraries. All...
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