Scientists have mapped the reproductive strategies and life cycle of an endangered coral species, the purple cauliflower soft coral Dendronephthya australis. Lab-grown larvae have been successfully ...

A soft coral, commonly found in the Indo-Pacific region and off the southern Israeli Red Sea coast, has been identified for the first time in the Eastern Mediterranean, in a possible further ...

Vital coastal habitat was destroyed in the devastating floods that hit New South Wales in 2021 and 2022. The purple cauliflower soft coral Dendronephthya australis, now listed as an endangered species ...

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The glow emitted by a variety of sea coral helped Russian scientists harness the protein that generates the light to create a tiny fluorescent tag that responds to visible light. The two-color tag ...

A threatened species of coral, thought to be restricted to Port Stephens, calls the Central Coast home. MAPPING OF THE Brisbane Water estuary on the New South Wales Central Coast has revealed the ...

Several years ago we cloned green fluorescent protein dendGFP from octocoral Dendronephthya sp. along with other fluorescent proteins 13. dendGFP carries a histidine residue in the chromophore-forming ...

Meryl Larkin receives funding from the NSW Department of Primary Industries, Southern Cross University’s National Marine Science Centre and Marine Ecology Research Centre, and the Australian ...

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