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Diazotrophic diversity in the Caribbean coral, Montastraea cavernosa.
Archives of microbiology - 1 Dec 2013
Olson Nathan D, Lesser Michael P
Abstract excerpt
Previous research on the Caribbean coral Montastraea cavernosa reported the presence of cyanobacterial endosymbionts and nitrogen fixation in orange, but not brown, colonies. We compared the diversity of nifH gene sequences between these two color morphs at three locations in the Caribbean and found that the nifH sequences recovered from M. cavernosa were consistent with previous studies on corals where members...
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