The corals that my colleagues and I study in Mo‘orea, French Polynesia, are sea polyps that grow in symbiosis with unicellular algae called zooxanthellae. Most of these corals’ nutrients come from the ...
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Is it a plant or an animal? We're talking about corals! Rachel Rodgers, the Greensboro Science Center’s primary coral aquarist, explained what corals are and how the symbiotic ...
Using an innovative new approach to sampling corals, researchers at the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa are now able to create maps of coral biochemistry that reveal with unprecedented detail the ...