Friend or foe? Researchers investigate the mysterious microbes living inside corals (IMAGE)

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Friend or foe? Researchers investigate the mysterious microbes living inside corals

Caption

Corallicolids and their hosts. A variety of anthozoan animals surrounding a corallicolid (centre: SEM of Anthozoaphila gnarlus). Clockwise from top left: Rhodactis (the type host of Corallicola aquarius), the complex scleractinian Acropora, the robust scleractinian Orbacella, the tube-dwelling anemone Pachycerianthus, the actiniarian anemone Condylactis, the gorgonian Eunica, the zoanthid Parazoanthus, and the black coral Cirrhipathes.

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Keeling PJ et al., 2021, PLOS Pathogens, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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