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A Probiotic to Protect Caribbean Corals

A bacterial strain from healthy corals could slow the progression and prevent transmission of the destructive stony coral tissue loss disease in the wild.

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Corals Upend Longstanding Idea About Genetic Inheritance

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Scientists Use Sound to Attract Baby Oysters Back to the Reef

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Human-Made Noise Disrupts Fish Parenting

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Great Barrier Reef Suffers Sixth Mass Bleaching in Two Decades

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Corals and Sea Anemones Turn Sunscreen into Toxins—Understanding How Could Help Save Coral Reefs

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Genome Spotlight: Tubifer cardinalfish (Siphamia tubifer)

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Infographic: How Corals Remember the Past, Prepare for the Future

Amanda Heidt | | 1 min read

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Environmental Memory: How Corals Are Adjusting to Warmer Waters

Amanda Heidt | | 10+ min read

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What Scientists Learned by Putting Octopuses in MRI Machines

Chloe Tenn | | 3 min read

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Cleaner Fish Alter Behavior if Partners Can See Them “Cheating”

Chloe Tenn | | 4 min read

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First Immortal Cell Line Cultured for Reef-Building Corals

Amanda Heidt | | 3 min read

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Amanda Heidt | | 1 min read

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Comprehensive Atlas of Reef-Building Coral’s Cells Created

Christie Wilcox, PhD | | 5 min read

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Dinoflagellate Genome Structure Unlike Any Other Known

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Certain Color Varieties of a Coral Are More Protected from Bleaching

Lisa Winter | | 2 min read

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Q&A: Parachute Science in Coral Reef Research

Asher Jones | | 8 min read

Coral Restorers

The Scientist | | 1 min read

Slideshow: Restoring Coral Reefs

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Restored Corals Spawn Hope for Reefs Worldwide

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Infographic: How to Accelerate the Growth of Restored Corals

Hanna R. Koch,Erinn MullerandMichael P. Crosby | | 9 min read

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