[Coral-List] Florescing coral

Nicolas J. Pilcher pilcher at tm.net.my
Thu Aug 11 05:07:57 EDT 2005


Asian Geographic also recently ran a non-scientist but nonetheless useful 
article on corals and fluorescence.

At 02:14 PM 8/10/2005 -0400, mazel at psicorp.com wrote:

>Melissa,
>
>A fair bit has been published, but the results are either not definitive, 
>or vary from case to case. Various hypotheses include photoprotection, 
>photoassistance to photosynthesis, influence on color of coral (happens, 
>but not a likely function), or that the fluorescing proteins are there for 
>a perfectly good reason (as yet unknown) in the life of the animal, but 
>that reason having nothing to do with the fluorescence. There is a list of 
>references on fluorescence at a web site that I maintain, 
>http://www.nightsea.com/references.htm . Some of the listings there have 
>links to downloadable pdf's.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Charles Mazel
>
>---- Message from mailto:<mekvinga at yahoo.com Melissa Keyes 
><mekvinga at yahoo.com> at 2005-08-10 10:02:15 ------
>
>Hello Listers,
>
>Is there any info out there about what's going on when corals floresce?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Melissa Keyes
>
>St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
>
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