Coral can acquire their symbiotic algae from giant clam poop!
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Article Title: "Fecal pellets of giant clams as a route for transporting Symbiodiniaceae to corals"
Funding: This work was supported by MEXT/JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 18K19232 to KK and Sasakawa Scientific Research Grant from The Japan Science Society to MU. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0243087
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