Young coral use metabolic tricks to resist bleaching (IMAGE)

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Young coral use metabolic tricks to resist bleaching

Caption

(left) The lead author of the study surveys a coral reef in Kāne‘ohe Bay, Hawai‘i (image: Shayle Matsuda). (middle) Colonies of the study species, Montipora capitata, releasing gametes during a broadcast spawning event in Kāne‘ohe Bay (image: Mariana Rocha de Souza). (right) Close-up view of individual coral polyps releasing egg-sperm bundles during spawning (image: Mariana Rocha de Souza).

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Shayle Matsuda and Mariana Rocha de Souza (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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