It’s one of the ocean’s most beautiful and striking mysteries: Why do corals fluoresce? In shallow waters, they glow a brilliant pink and purple. In deeper waters, corals turn red and green against a ...

Biofluorescence exists in only a few classes of organisms, with Anthozoa possessing the majority of species known to express fluorescent proteins. Most species within the Anthozoan subgroup ...

The health of coral reefs around the world has been threatened from a variety of natural and human-produced sources. In order to more accurately decipher the factors that lead to healthy growth of ...

Coral reefs not only provide the world with rich, productive ecosystems and photogenic undersea settings, they also contribute an economic boost valued at hundreds of billions of dollars. But their ...

Tropical corals are famous for their captivating colors thanks to microscopic algae inhabitants. Glowing, on the other hand, is not standard fare for tropical reefs. Glowing corals in New Caledonia ...

Fluorescent proteins all aglow in these corals. Photo by Michael Lesser and Charles Mazel, NOAA Ocean Explorer Anyone who has gone scuba diving or snorkeling in a coral reef will likely never forget ...

Corals know how to attract good company. New research finds that corals emit an enticing fluorescent green light that attracts the mobile microalgae, known as Symbiodinium, that are critical to the ...

A group of researchers at RIKEN in Japan have developed a fluorescent protein that can be switched on and off more than 100 times. 1 Atsushi Miyawaki and colleagues engineered monomeric fluorescent ...

It’s one of the ocean’s most beautiful and striking mysteries: Why do corals fluoresce? In shallow waters, they glow a brilliant pink and purple. In deeper waters, corals turn red and green against a ...

The health of coral reefs around the world has been threatened from a variety of natural and human-produced sources. In order to more accurately decipher the factors that lead to healthy growth of ...