During asexual reproduction, a portion of the parent coral either breaks or buds off and attaches to ... found that the corals had self-fertilized. During the process of comparing the genomes of the ...

Off Oahu, I snorkeled with Mary Hagedorn, of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, who is investigating the mysteries of coral reproduction. Coral, which serves as home to countless ...

The process goes on for several hours until ... for restoring ocean habitats below 164 feet by studying deep-sea coral reproduction. The work is only one piece of a much larger restoration project ...

Reef sustainability is closely tied to coral reproduction. Then director of the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Knowlton, who has since ...

Smooth flower coral will not contribute a lot of ... through cloning and micro-fragmentation and sexual reproduction – making the process a little more “plug and play,” Muller said, but ...