Metagenomic analysis reveals a green sulfur bacterium as a potential coral symbiont

Abstract Coral reefs are ecologically significant habitats. Coral-algal symbiosis confers ecological success on coral reefs and coral-microbial symbiosis is also vital to coral reefs. However, current understanding of coral-microbial symbiosis on a genomic scale is largely unknown. Here we report a...

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Main Authors: Lin Cai, Guowei Zhou, Ren-Mao Tian, Haoya Tong, Weipeng Zhang, Jin Sun, Wei Ding, Yue Him Wong, James Y. Xie, Jian-Wen Qiu, Sheng Liu, Hui Huang, Pei-Yuan Qian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-08-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41598-017-09032-4