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Fish Pee: The Coral Reef Superfood

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Fish consider the ocean their own personal toilet. Well, researchers found out that's not such a bad thing!

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Sources:
Fish pee in coral reefs
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-big-fishand-peeare-key-coral.html
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2016/08/18/fish-pee-coral-reef-grow/#.V7bZ5vkrJpg
http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12461


Earth’s Virome
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/dgi-uev081516.php
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/pdf/nature19094.pdf
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23899068

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