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To introduce symbiotic algae into aposymbiotic hydra as a means for studying the biology of host—symbiont reassociation. With slight modification, this method may be modified to inject reagents, isotopes. or other kinds of particles into the hydra’s enteron (gut).
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Pardy, R.L. (1983). Introducing Symbiotic Algae into Aposymbiotic Hydra. In: Lenhoff, H.M. (eds) Hydra: Research Methods. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0596-6_56
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