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Geographic distribution of zooxanthella types in three coral species on the Great Barrier Reef sampled after the 2002 bleaching event

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Acknowledgements

We thank Ray Berkelmans, Chico Birrell, Stuart Kininmonth, Adam Pharoah, and Mary Wakeford for their help in collecting the coral samples. We thank The Nature Conservancy for their support of this project.

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  1. Australian Institute of Marine Science, PMB No. 3, Townsville MC, Qld, 4810, Australia

    Madeleine J. H. van. Oppen, Azita J Mahiny & Terry J Done

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Oppen, M.J.H.v., Mahiny, A.J. & Done, T.J. Geographic distribution of zooxanthella types in three coral species on the Great Barrier Reef sampled after the 2002 bleaching event. Coral Reefs 24, 482–487 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-005-0487-1

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