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From coral sperm banks to climate action: What’s best to save reefs?

Read about the research done by Mary Hagedorn, researcher at HIMB and collaborators from around the world. The group is  working to develop techniques to build a reef sperm bank by freezing the reproductive cells of corals, algae, and even the fish that populate reef ecosystems. The idea is that such a resource would effectively preserve the genetic diversity of today’s reefs.

 

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https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Inhabit/2017/0713/From-coral-sperm-banks-to-climate-action-What-s-best-to-save-reefs?cmpid=push013s