image: High-definition macro DSLR images documenting the complex tissue behavior as C. cyclolites moves toward the blue source light (480nm).
Credit: Lewis et al., 2025, PLOS One, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Some coral "walk" towards blue or white light, using rolling, sliding or pulsing movements to migrate, per experiments with free-living mushroom coral Cycloseris cyclolites
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0315623
Article title: Walking coral: Complex phototactic mobility in the free-living coral Cycloseris cyclolites
Author countries: Australia, Saudi Arabia
Funding: The authors declare the research was funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Project (DP1096184). APC support was received by QUT to aid in publication. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Journal
PLOS One
Article Title
Walking coral: Complex phototactic mobility in the free-living coral Cycloseris cyclolites
Article Publication Date
22-Jan-2025
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.