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Naturally occurring fire coral clones demonstrate a genetic and environmental basis of microbiome composition.
Nature communications - 4 Nov 2021
Dubé C E, Ziegler M, Mercière A, Boissin E, Planes S, Bourmaud C A-F, Voolstra C R
Abstract excerpt
Coral microbiomes are critical to holobiont functioning, but much remains to be understood about how prevailing environment and host genotype affect microbial communities in ecosystems. Resembling human identical twin studies, we examined bacterial community differences of naturally occurring fire coral clones within and between contrasting reef habitats to assess the relative contribution of host genotype and...
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