This year we have expanded our studies and in addition to collecting spawn from Montastraea faveolata and Acropora palmata during August, we are collecting larvae from the octocoral Briareum asbestinum and the jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana .We are working out of the Keys Marine Lab on Long Key. The team is in Long Key now for the B. asbestinum and C. xamachana spawning and will converge again starting Aug. 5 for the hard coral spawning.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Once the larvae have metamorphosed into polyps, the branches will be place in containers and exposed to different strains of Symbiodinium in the experimental set-up shown here.
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