Collecting samples of Pocillopora corals (IMAGE)

Rice University

Collecting samples of Pocillopora corals

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Marine biologists sample reefs of Pocillopora corals. Researchers at Rice University and Oregon State University studied corals and found fragments of non-retroviruses in the genomes of their symbionts, perhaps the result of infections millions of years ago. (Credit: Andrew Thurber/Oregon State University)

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Credit: Andrew Thurber/Oregon State University

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