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Yuu Ishii, Shinichiro Maruyama
Methods for genetic transformation of coral symbiont algae:
Current status and future directions
Keywords: algae, cnidarian animals, endosymbiosis, Symbiodinium, transformation
Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University
6-3, Aramaki Aza-Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8578, Japan
DOI: 10.24480/bsj-review.8c5.00124
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