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The genome of a giant clam zooxanthella (Cladocopium infistulum) offers few clues to adaptation as an extracellular symbiont with high thermotolerance
2024-05-27
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<title>Abstract</title> <p><italic><bold>Background</bold></italic> <italic>Cladocopium infistulum</italic> (Symbiodiniaceae) is a dinoflagellate specialized to live in symbiosis with western Pacific giant clams (Tridacnidae). Unlike coral-associated symbionts, which reside within the host cells, <italic>C. infistulum</italic> inhabits the extracellular spaces of the clam’s digestive diverticula. It is phylogenet...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 75309e87-60a6-5bed-83e3-48e91e2b0468
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4427067/v1
