[Coral-List] Coral growth abnormalities
Thomas Goreau
goreau at bestweb.net
Wed Nov 1 11:37:38 EST 2006
Dear Shashank,
Coral growth abnormalities of the kind you describe have been known
for more than 50 years, but every few years somebody notices them for
the first time and decides they are cancer or tumours. We have long
called them neoplasms, but Esther Peters is quite right to call them
simply growth abnormalities, as they can have many causes. A great
deal of histological work was done on them in the 1950s and 1960s by
Nora Goreau, and we generally felt that most of them were the result
of somatic cell mutations from their appearance and structure,
although no genetic work was done. It is my clear impression that
their frequency has not changed for the last 50 years.
Best wishes,
Tom
Thomas J. Goreau, PhD
President
Global Coral Reef Alliance
37 Pleasant Street, Cambridge MA 02139
617-864-4226
goreau at bestweb.net
http://www.globalcoral.org
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:56:48 -0800 (PST)
> From: shashank Keshavmurthy <iamshanky15 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Coral-List] update on coral growth anamolies (tumors??)
> To: Leslie Whaylen <lesliewhaylen at yahoo.com>, Doug Fenner
> <douglasfenner at yahoo.com>, greta at hawaii.edu
> Cc: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
> Message-ID: <20061031225648.28238.qmail at web31811.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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> Dear all
> When the photos that I posted on my website were taken...only 3
> colonies of Acropora sp. were seen with those growth anamolies at
> our sampling site....
>
> We do not know about the adjacent site...or to extent at which it
> will spread..or will it spread at all...
>
> We will be going again after 2 weeks to check for the spread if
> any...or it might have been some freak incident!!
> will keep you updated
> Hoping for the best....
>
> Regards
> shashank
>
> "the role of infinitely small in nature is infinitely large"-Louis
> Pasteur
>
> Keshavmurthy Shashank
> phD candidate
> Kochi University, Graduate School of Kuroshio Science
> Laboratory of Environmental Conservation
> Otsu 200, Monobe, Nankoku-shi
> 783-8502, Kochi, Japan
> alt. id: shashank at cc.kochi-u.ac.jp
> phone: 81 080 3925 3889
> My WebPage: http://web.mac.com/coralresearch/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html
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