A dozen years ago, I wrote about my first successful full soft tissue fusion in two strains of Acanthastrea echinata. Since that time many more have taken up the challenge (or stumbled upon it by accident.) It was exciting to be the first to kick of this wave of grafting and fusing, and it has been [...]
A zoomed in fused of the newly fused area, green highlights can be seen in the darker donor coral The picture above was taken 2 weeks after I first grafted the corals, and already shows some areas of fusion. The green from one donor can be seen oozing into the other donor tissue.There are two [...]
“Identification of a protist-coral association and its possible ecological role” by a team of scientists in Israel, [...]
