Sentences with phrase «coral eggs and sperm»

The sea was covered in a pink, oily slick of coral eggs and sperm.

And Great Barrier Reef researchers recently announced that they'd successfully repopulated parts of the reef by collecting coral eggs and sperm, growing coral larvae, and replanting those larvae in protected sites on the reef.

Not exact matches

Many reefs have gotten so degraded that even corals that are still alive can't sexually reproduce, since healthy patches are too far apart for eggs and sperm to find each other.

On the Great Barrier Reef, researchers have been able to replant coral larvae in some sections after collecting eggs and sperm.

Each November in the days following the light of a full moon, coral colonies across the reef — spanning an area larger than the state of New Mexico — release millions of egg and sperm sacs within nearly minutes of one another.

Most corals reproduce by releasing sperm and eggs into the ocean during brief annual spawning events.

Most spawning corals are hermaphrodites that release large bundles of eggs and sperm.

This is different from coral fertilization, in which numerous mature eggs and sperms are released simultaneously and fertilized in the water.

Another coral gene responds to a full moon, triggering the simultaneous release of millions of eggs and sperm along a reef.

At 10 p.m., when water is around 24 °C (75 °F), Acropora digitifera corals in the southernmost part of Japan start to release their eggs and sperm, known as gametes, exactly at the same time in a process called synchronized spawning.

Corals release their eggs and sperm based on photosynthetic cues provided by moonlight.

Like other animals, elkhorn coral reproduces sexually, which means a sperm cell and egg cell come together to create a new organism.

And those led to the modern understanding that many corals reproduce only once or twice a year, in coordinated mass releases of eggs and speAnd those led to the modern understanding that many corals reproduce only once or twice a year, in coordinated mass releases of eggs and speand sperm.

Harrison would take a few mature corals to the lab and convince them to release sperm and eggs in aquarium tanks.

They are also collecting eggs and sperm from wild colonies of four coral species to grow on Summerland Key.

Harrison has been thinking about genetic diversity ever since the early 1980s, when he saw coral spewing sperm and eggs into the ocean.

Timed with the full - moon of November, eggs and sperm are released in a mass coral orgy.

Once a year, coral release millions of packets of egg and sperm cells that appear as massive underwater clouds of white and pink upward moving «snowfall».

Many studies have demonstrated the risks that ocean acidification pose to marine organisms, such as coral dissolving in more acidic water.6 However, new findings suggest that the August and September time period could be particularly challenging for the earliest life stage of elkhorn coral — an important reef - forming coral of the Caribbean — if we continue on a path of high carbon dioxide emissions.5 Ordinarily each August or September elkhorn corals flood the water with eggs and sperm (gametes) for sexual reproduction.2