Thursday, March 19, 2009

bio news



When coral colonies meet one another on the reef, they have two options: merge into a single colony or reject each other and aggressively compete for space. Now, a report in the March 19th Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, has found a gene that may help to decide that fate.

2 comments:

  1. Nice post, have you ever seen a video of this actually happening?

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  2. no i havent but il try to get a post of a video
    on my blog.

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