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A study by biologists has found that significant outbreaks of marine viruses may be associated with coral bleaching events, especially as a result of multiple environmental stresses. The new findings document a viral outbreak that occurred as corals were bleaching - losing color as a byproduct of expelling symbiotic algae that live in the corals' tissues - in part of the Great Barrier Reef off the east coast of Australia. Researchers who studied the reef found three viral groups, including a herpes-like virus, in the outbreak. [Source: Rice University]
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