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Recent work on the symbiosis between cnidarians and endosymbiotic algae has demonstrated that algae release soluble photosynthate to a variety of coelenterate hosts (Muscatine, 1974. The flow of organic carbon from algae to animal has reasonably been investigated as a major nutritional benefit of algal symbiosis. Lewis and Smith (1971) have drawn attention to the possibility that other nutrients could be transferred between algae and host. In this paper, I wish to suggest that sulfate may be important in the metabolism of coelenterates which harbor algal symbionts, and I present preliminary evidence which shows that the possession of symbiotic algae enhances the ability of green hydra to metabolize sulfate.
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Cook, C.B. (1976). Sulfate Utilization in Green Hydra. In: Mackie, G.O. (eds) Coelenterate Ecology and Behavior. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9724-4_44
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