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Coral disease mimic: sponge attacks Porites lutea in Yemen

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We thank Yemen LNG, Total E & P, Creocean and MacAlister Elliott & Partners for allowing fieldwork and sampling, thanks also to Christine Schoenberg and Carlo Cerrano for preliminary comments.

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  1. Department of Biotechnologies and Biosciences, University of Milan-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 2, 20126, Milan, Italy

    F. Benzoni

  2. Department of Marine Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131, Ancona, Italy

    B. Calcinai

  3. Centre of Microscale Ecosystems, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45117, Essen, Germany

    M. Eisinger

  4. C/o MacAlister Elliott & Partners, 56 High Street, Lymington, Hampshire, SO41 9AH, UK

    R. Klaus

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Benzoni, F., Calcinai, B., Eisinger, M. et al. Coral disease mimic: sponge attacks Porites lutea in Yemen. Coral Reefs 27, 695 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-008-0371-x

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