A Caribbean coral that fluoresces orange appears to be the first ever found to contain a symbiotic microbe that converts elemental nitrogen into a biologically usable form, as bacteria in the roots of bean plants do.
CORAL CONSORTIUM. This orange-glowing Montastraea cavernosa coral seems to live symbiotically with two microbe species.
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