Highly Heterogeneous Bacterial Communities Associated with the South China Sea Reef Corals Porites lutea, Galaxea fascicularis and Acropora millepora

Jie Li; Qi Chen; Si Zhang; Hui Huang; Jian Yang; Xin-Peng Tian; Li-Juan Long

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0071301

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Highly Heterogeneous Bacterial Communities Associated with the South China Sea Reef Corals Porites lutea, Galaxea fascicularis and Acropora millepora

Jie Li,

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China
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Qi Chen,

Affiliations CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China
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Si Zhang,

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China
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Hui Huang,

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China
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Jian Yang,

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China
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Xin-Peng Tian,

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China
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Li-Juan Long

* E-mail: longlj@scsio.ac.cn

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China
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Highly Heterogeneous Bacterial Communities Associated with the South China Sea Reef Corals Porites lutea, Galaxea fascicularis and Acropora millepora

Jie Li,
Qi Chen,
Si Zhang,
Hui Huang,
Jian Yang,
Xin-Peng Tian,
Li-Juan Long

Published: August 7, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0071301

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