coral guard-crabs. These buff little crustaceans take up residence within pocilloporid corals—the ones that look a bit like cauliflower or loose brains. In exchange for shelter and nutrients ...

Marine biologists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego monitored the levels of fluorescence and fluorescent proteins in a common branching coral from the Indo-Pacific region ...

Researchers have, for the first time, successfully raised laboratory-bred colonies of a threatened Caribbean coral species to sexual maturity. Due to its large size and branching shape ...

A new study has found that multiple stressors might be too much for corals. The findings have important implications for the resilience of coral reefs to climate change. A new study from ...

Corals are one of the most structurally complex marine organisms. They exist in many morphologies ranging from branching to dome-shaped forms. Within the species, the branching coral Pocillopora ...

The team discovered the heat tolerance genes while cross-breeding individuals of a branching coral (Acropora millepora) located on the far northern Great Barrier Reef with members of the same ...

For instance, the two species of branching corals native to the Caribbean are in very bad shape, he says. But there are more than 100 species of branching corals globally, some of which could ...

Professors, graduate students and volunteers gathered to retrieve staghorn coral fragments from the university’s nursery offshore of Key Biscayne. The brown, branching corals were in good shape.

Without human intervention, these branching, golden Elkhorn corals that resemble elk antlers wouldn’t be naturally settling on Florida reefs. Far too many have been lost for them to breed on ...