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REEF MICROBIOMES

VOLUME 18, NUMBER 4

9 Editor’s Page by James M. Lawrence
10 Reef News:
CORAL staff reports
20 Reef Visions
by Matt Pedersen

FEATURE ARTICLES
28 Meet The Diazotrophs — The under-appreciated role of nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the secret life of corals by Kenneth Wingerter
40 The Reef Microbiome — An invisible force and the next frontier in marine husbandry
by Eli Meyer, Ph.D.
50 The Coral Reef Russian Doll — The hidden interactions of bacteria and symbiotic algae: A secret affair within the coral holobiont
by Justin Maire, Ph.D.
60 Our Coral Goby Year­ — Eye-to-eye with cute
by Ned and Anna DeLoach

AQUARIUM PORTRAIT
70     Alpine Reef Trek — The long and rocky road to a thriving marine system in remote northern Italy
by Georg Schneider

DEPARTMENTS
80 Species Spotlight: Copperband Butterflyfish, Chelmon rostratus CORAL staff report
89 Reefkeeping 101: Good Fish, Bad Fish; Part I — The right way to choose reef livestock
by Dr. Dieter Brockmann
94 Advanced Aquatics: The Copperband Enigma — CORAL readers share their experiences with a fish as unpredictable as it is alluring
by Matt Pedersen
104 CORAL sources:
Outstanding aquarium shops
106 CORALexicon:
Technical terms that appear in this issue
108 Reef Marketplace:
The marine products showcase
110 Letter From Europe
by Daniel Knop
112 Advertiser Index
114 Reef Life:
by Denise Nielsen Tackett and Larry P. Tackett

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