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Kawamura, Kaz, Sekida Satoko, Nishitsuji Koki, Shoguchi Eiichi, Hisata Kanako, Fujiwara Shigeki, Satoh Noriyuki. In vitro Symbiosis of Reef-Building Coral Cells With Photosynthetic Dinoflagellates, Frontiers in Marine Science, Vol 8,2021, DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2021.706308

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Poon, Rebecca N., Timothy A. Westwood, Hannah Laeverenz-Schlogelhofer, Emelie Brodrick, Jamie Craggs, Eric E. Keaveny, Gáspár Jékely, Kirsty Y. Wan. Ciliary propulsion and metachronal coordination in reef coral larvae. bioRxiv 2022.09.19.508546; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.19.50...

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Shapiro OH, Fernandez VI, Garren M, Guasto JS, Debaillon-Vesque FP, Kramarsky-Winter E, Vardi A, Stocker R. Vortical ciliary flows actively enhance mass transport in reef corals. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Sep 16;111(37):13391-6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1323094111.