Swimming and Settling Coral Larvae (IMAGE)

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Swimming and Settling Coral Larvae

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A swimming (bottom) and settling (top) coral larvae. The brown spots in the larvae are the symbiont algae, which this coral inherited from its parent.

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Raphael Ritson-Williams

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