Corals and sponges communicate via metabolism
research team is jointly led by Prof. Dr. Christian Wild (Marine Ecology, University of Bremen), Dr. MalikNaumann (Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, ZMT), Dr. Jasper de Goeij (University of Amsterdam) [...] 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