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"Corallivorous fish are generally regarded as harmful because they bite the corals," said Dr. Carsten Grupstra of Rice University, lead author of the study published in."But it turns out that this doesn't tell the whole story.
Grupstra and colleagues studied the effects of feces from both corallivores and grazers on live coral. They placed pieces of coral in jars with sterile seawater and applied feces from corallivore and grazer fish to different jars. Some samples were sterilized, to determine whether the physical characteristics of the feces alone caused the lesions. After the experiment, each piece of coral was examined and categorized as apparently healthy, containing lesions, or dead.
The scientists suspected that this was because of the greater abundance of coral pathogens found in the fresh feces of grazers, and the higher abundance of beneficial microbes found in the fresh feces of corallivores. The fish previously assumed to be harmful may thus be contributing to important processes that promote coral reef health.
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