Opening pages of Dr. Ronald Shimek’s feature article on holobionts—astonishing assemblages of organisms living in complex symbiotic relationships.
CORAL HOLOBIONTS
There is more to a colony of Acropora than meets the eye. Much more.
by Ronald L. Shimek
CORAL Magazine, Volume 14:4, July/August 2017
pp 46-61
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Accompanying article exploring the findings of scientists whose DNA analysis of a colony of stony coral found 4,800 distinct species clustered together.
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ANATOMY OF A HOLOBIONT
by Ronald L. Shimek
CORAL Magazine, Volume 14:4, July/August 2017
Pages 56-57
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