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The coral symbiont <i>Candidatus</i> Aquarickettsia is variably abundant in threatened Caribbean acroporids and transmitted horizontally
2021-01-29
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The aquatic symbiont “ Candidatus Aquarickettsia rohweri ” infects a diversity of non-bilaterian metazoan phyla. In the threatened coral Acropora cervicornis , Aquarickettsia proliferates in response to increased nutrient exposure, resulting in suppressed growth and increased disease susceptibility and mortality. This study evaluated the extent, as well as the ecology and evolution of Aquarickettsia infecting...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 7beaf991-a1f2-5a76-a435-067e074da11e
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.01.28.428674
