Bacterial populations and adaptations in the mucus layers on living corals1

@article{Ducklow1979BacterialPA,
  title={Bacterial populations and adaptations in the mucus layers on living corals1},
  author={Hugh W. Ducklow and Ralph Mitchell},
  journal={Limnology and Oceanography},
  year={1979},
  volume={24},
  pages={715-725}
}
The external mucus layers of the stony coral Porites astreoides and the soft corals Palythoa sp. and Heteroxenia fuscesens are inhabited by communities of marine heterotrophic bacteria. Population levels of bacteria in coral mucus may be regulated by the self-cleaning behavior of the host. Bacterial populations in coral mucus respond to stresses applied to the host coral by growing to higher population levels in the mucus, indicating that these are populations of viable organisms closely… 
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