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How Bacteria Figure Out When Corals Are Vulnerable

2013-12-14 03:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Softpedia: A team of investigators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces the discovery of a mechanism that enables bacteria living in the world's oceans to attack and infect vulnerable corals. Coral reefs around the world are endangered by factors such as climate change, global warming and ocean acidification. The latter, in particular, is especially worrying, since it promotes coral bleaching. This phenomenon occurs when the algae that live in harmony with polyps inside corals...

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