Stress Responses Help Some Corals Handle the Heat (3 of 7) (IMAGE)

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Stress Responses Help Some Corals Handle the Heat (3 of 7)

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Lupita Ruiz-Jones sampling a coral colony of Acropora hyacinthus to investigate changes in gene transcription under different environmental conditions. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 8, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by L.J. Ruiz-Jonesat Stanford University in Pacific Grove, CA, and colleagues was titled, 'Tidal heat pulses on a reef trigger a fine-tuned transcriptional response in corals to maintain homeostasis.'

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