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We thank Peter Bond and Keith Ryan from the Plymouth Electron Microscope Centre at the University of Plymouth for their invaluable assistance during this project. ALD was funded by an Undergraduate Research Bursary awarded to SKD from the Nuffield Foundation (NUF-URB02). WHW is supported partly by a Marine Biological Association of the UK Research Fellowship funded by grant in aid from the Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) and through the NERC-funded core strategic research programme of Plymouth Marine Laboratory.
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Wilson, W.H., Dale, A.L., Davy, J.E. et al. An enemy within? Observations of virus-like particles in reef corals.. Coral Reefs 24, 145–148 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-004-0448-0
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