Short-term in situ shading effectively mitigates linear progression of coral-killing sponge Terpios hoshinota

• Thangadurai Thinesh,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India

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• Ramu Meenatchi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India

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• Ramasamy Pasiyappazham,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India

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• Polpass Arul Jose,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Current address: Marine Biotechnology and Ecology Division, CSIR—Central Salt and Marine Research Institute (CSIR-CSMCRI), Bhavnagar, India

  Affiliation School of Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India

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• Muthamizh Selvan,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India

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• George Seghal Kiran,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Food Science and Technology, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India

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• Joseph Selvin

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: josephselvinss@gmail.com, jselvin.mib@pondiuni.edu.in

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9292-8145

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