Rare corals hybridizing

[Len]

Very interesting article:

Rare coral species are saving themselves from extinction by hybridising with other coral species, according to research published by Australian scientists in a recent issue of the journal PLoS ONE.

http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/p ... ?news=1894

 

[Ben1]

Cool, Vernon will need a new series covering all the hybrids lol.

 

[Anonymous]

Grafted simplex becomes ultra common now?

As long as they don't all morph into brown corals I'm cool with it

 

[SnowManSnow]

what is it that the guy from Jurassic Park kept saying? I believe it was, "Life will find a way".

I believe we should be good stewards of the good earth, but somehow a lot of people have bought into the idea that "nature needs us". Nature possesses forces far greater than anything we've come up with thus far to enable it's survival.

That isn't to say that things don't go extinct of course, but something has always taken the extinct party's place that wouldn't have been able to coexist with the extinct life form.

I think its all in the life cycle of the earth. Living, dying, constantly remaking itself.

IN this case.. just some new types of corals that have "found a way", as some of the others become obsolete.

B

 

[ZooKeeper1]

Volume 2 number 6 of Coral magazine has a great article on reticulate evolution by Vernon. You'd find it interesting.