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Scleractinian walls of mouths: Predation on coral larvae by corals

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Acknowledgements

We greatly thank Lindsay Harrington, Bette Willis, Andrew Negri, and a number of volunteers for help during coral spawning. Thanks also to Lindsay Harrington for help throughout the experiments, and to Glenn De’ath for critical reading of an earlier version of the manuscript. The project was funded by the Cooperative Research Centre of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (CRC Reef), and supported by the Australian Institute of Marine Science.

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    Katharina E. Fabricius

  2. Department of Biology, University of Bremen, Fahrenheitstr. 1, 28359, Bremen, Germany

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Fabricius, K.E., Metzner, J. Scleractinian walls of mouths: Predation on coral larvae by corals. Coral Reefs 23, 245–248 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-004-0386-x

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