Timfish Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Interesting article on reseach showing corals embryos can break apart creating clones similar to mamals having twins, triplets, quadruplets, etc. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120301143420.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewisweil Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Wow, so fragging can start very early in development then. This is a brilliant adaptation. I doubt that the "frags" from broken embryos actually settle out very often, but it increases the likelyhood of at least one surviving. I will have to get someone at UT to download the full text of the Science paper for me. I wonder if this is common across coral genera? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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