Corals and sponges communicate via metabolism
University of Bremen), Dr. Malik Naumann (Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, ZMT), Dr. Jasper de Goeij (University of Amsterdam), und Dr. Dick van Oevelen (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea [...] results were very similar. The coral mucus was always readily taken up by the sponges, and very rapidly 20-40 percent of this ingested material was transformed into particulate pellets. The exiting aspect of