Corals may need their predators’ poop – Phys.Org

“The message is, ‘Move over grazers, it’s not just you helping maintain coral dominance. These coral-eating fishes are probably helping too by spreading beneficial coral symbionts,'” she said.Rice doctoral student Carsten Grupstra, lead author of the study in Animal Microbiome, said, “This tells us we don’t really know all of the interactions that are happening on coral reefs, and some species may be important for coral reef conservation in ways that we haven’t imagined.”
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