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Kobe University

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KAWAI Hiroshi explains, “Where these structures are white, around where the organism’s fruiting structures are located, they may act as a camouflage of their original red color against grazers using sight to find their food.”

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H. Kawai and T. Motomura, European Journal of Phycology 2025 (DOI 10.1080/09670262.2025.2483980) (CC BY)

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