Transcriptomic Resilience of the Montipora digitata Holobiont to Low pH
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Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Palaeontology and Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany, 2 Faculty of Biology, Munich Graduate School for Evolution, Ecology and Systematics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany, 3 Bavarian State Collections of Palaeontology and Geology, Munich, Germany, GeoBio-Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
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