A unique symbiosis in the gut of tropical herbivorous surgeonfish (acanthuridae: teleostei) from the red sea.

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  1985

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  Science

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  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1126/SCIENCE.229.4708.49PMID 17795131
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