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. 2018 Feb 2;8:2293. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-20196-5

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Microborer penetration into rapidly extending skeletons of early coral recruits. (a) The colonization capacity is reported as relative depth of penetration of microborers to skeletal height (relative DP) and varies among larval settlement substrates; n = number of measurements of depths of penetration. (b1) Corresponding vertical and (b2) horizontal extension rates of n replicate coral recruits, with standard error. *Significant differences (P < 0.05). Data for 3 months old recruits on dead Porites are missing because monitoring of larval development on these substrates was stopped at 1 month when prevalence of microborers in coral skeleton reached 100% (see Fig. 2).