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Coral, meet coral: how selective breeding may help the world’s reefs survive ocean heating
Emily Howells & David Abrego, The Conversation Fisheries & Aquaculture
The discovery could offer a lifeline to reefs threatened by the warming of the world’s oceans.
Our research, published in Science Advances, shows corals from some of the world’s hottest seas can transfer beneficial genes associated with heat tolerance to their offspring, even when crossbred with corals that have never experienced such temperatures.
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