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Coral spat or polyp.

Coral spat or polyp.
Coral spat or polyp.
Coral spat or polyp.
Coral spat or polyp.
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Rivera, Hanny
Coral spat or polyp.
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01/21/2005
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 53, No. 2, pg. 17:
All coral colonies start off as a single newly settled polyp, or spat (right). This single polyp grows and divides asexually into thousands of clonal polyps that form a colony.
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All coral colonies start off as a single newly settled polyp, or spat. This single polyp grows and divides asexually into thousands of clonal polyps that form a colony. Hanny Rivera, a recent graduate graduate in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, extended her Ph.D. research on Palauan corals by examining whether resilient corals on so-called Super Reefs could disperse their young to other reefs and help those reefs recover following a disturbance. Rivera uses DNA to determine how closely related, or genetically connected, corals from different reefs are to one another.
Photo by Hanny Rivera
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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