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How does mushroom coral work with microplastic

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Mushroom corals also ingest plastic particles, with a higher probability of retaining biofouled plastics, possibly because plastic that has been in the marine environment long enough to be colonized by micro- and macro-organisms becomes more palatable to corals
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