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Scientists just found out how corals rebuild themselves on the reef

Researchers at QUT uncovered how corals reattach to reefs through a three-phase process involving tissue transformation, ...
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Degraded Montipora Coral Colonies in the Main Hawaiian Islands (IMAGE)

This photo demonstrates several colonies of Montipora sp coral located in Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, that are being overgrown and smothered by the alien invasive algae Gorilla Ogo (Gracilaria salicornia), and ...
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Quantifying The Effects of Colony Size, Morphology, and Bleaching on Growth Rates of the Coral Montipora Capitata Using 3D Structure-From-Motion Photogrammetry

Lawlor, Colleen Marie, DeCarlo, Thomnas M. and Robert J. Toonen, Iacchei, Matthew J. Coral growth plays a vital role in forming the structural complexity that supports reef biodiversity, but can vary ...
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New Study Reveals How Corals Heal and Rebuild Themselves on the Reef

QUT scientists reveal how corals heal and reattach to reefs through tissue transformation, self-digestion, and skeleton ...
Nature

A fluorescent variant of a protein from the stony coral Montipora facilitates dual-color single-laser fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy

Figure 1: In vitro evolution of a chromoprotein from the stony coral Montipora sp. into a fluorescent protein with a large Stokes shift. Figure 2: Single laser wavelength (458 nm) excitation FCCS ...