Inter-specific coral chimerism: genetically distinct multicellular structures associated with tissue loss in Montipora capitata.

Montipora white syndrome (MWS) results in tissue-loss that is often lethal to Montipora capitata, a major reef building coral that is abundant and dominant in the Hawai'ian Archipelago. Within some MWS-affected colonies in Kane'ohe Bay, Oahu, Hawai'i, we saw unusual motile multicellul...

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Main Authors: Thierry M Work, Zac H Forsman, Zoltán Szabó, Teresa D Lewis, Greta S Aeby, Robert J Toonen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3145771?pdf=render