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Healthy Coral Reversed Bleaching in Its Neighbor With Just 1 Week of Contact : ScienceAlert (opens in a new tab)
sciencealert.com · 2026-10-14
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Healthy Coral Reversed Bleaching in Its Neighbor With Just 1 Week of Contact : ScienceAlert
sciencealert.com · 2026-10-14
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Claim 1 of 5Not checkedStanford scientists found a technique that could help rescue corals on the brink of death by putting healthy coral in contact with bleached coral.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 2 of 5Not checkedWhen healthy and bleached pieces of Pocillopora damicornis coral from the same colony touched, color returned to the bleached fragment because the healthy coral transferred symbiotic algae and nutrients.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 3 of 5Not checkedDirect contact was required; a gap of just a few millimeters prevented transfer in lab experiments.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 4 of 5Not checkedOne week of contact with healthy coral was enough to trigger a complete recovery of bleached pieces, which took up to seven weeks in total, and this was faster than recovery in wild bleached populations.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 5 of 5Not checkedThe article says it is still unclear whether the same approach would work in the ocean on wild bleached reefs.View evidenceHide evidence
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PubMed, Crossref, Europe PMC · 15 candidate papers
Investigating the effects of PLA microplastics on Pocillopora damicornis (cnidaria, scleractinia).
Marine Pollution Bulletin · 2026 · PubMed
Variation of symbiodiniaceae in broadcaster acropora humilis and brooder pocillopora damicornis corals
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Thermal stress-induced metabolic reprogramming in two hard coral species.
2026 · Europe PMC
A novel TRPV5/6-like channel from a scleractinian coral.
PloS One · 2025 · PubMed, Europe PMC
Figure 4: Box plots showing alpha diversity indices of Symbiodiniaceae community from two coral species, Acropora humilis ( n = 15) and Pocillopora cf. damicornis ( n = 15) in different seasons. Shannon and Simpson indexes reflects the evenness and diversity of Symbiodiniaceae species, respectively.
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