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The 3D Reconstruction of Pocillopora Colony Sheds Light on the Growth Pattern of This Reef-Building Coral.
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- Skeleton-Forming Responses of Reef-Building Corals under Ocean Acidification.Research (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Article
- A generalized numerical model for clonal growth in scleractinian coral colonies.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Three-dimensional reconstruction of high latitude bamboo coral via X-ray microfocus Computed Tomography.Scientific data · 2024Article
- Polyp-Canal Reconstruction Reveals Evolution Toward Complexity in Corals.Research (Washington, D.C.) · 2023Article
- Full-Length Transcriptome Maps of Reef-Building Coral Illuminate the Molecular Basis of Calcification, Symbiosis, and Circadian Genes.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Micro-CT reconstruction reveals the colony pattern regulations of four dominant reef-building corals.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
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Abstract
Coral reefs are formed by living polyps, and understanding the dynamic processes behind the reefs is crucial for marine ecosystem restoration. However, these processes are still unclear because the growth and budding patterns of living polyps are poorly known. Here, we investigate the growth pattern of a widely distributed reef-building coral Pocillopora damicornis from Xisha Islands using high-resolution computed tomography. We examine the corallites in a single corallum of the species in detail, to interpret the budding, growth, and distribution pattern of the polyps, to reconstruct the growth pattern of this important reef-building species. Our results reveal a three-stage growth pattern of P. damicornis, based on different growth bundles that are secreted by polyps along the dichotomous growth axes of the corallites. Our work on the three-dimensional reconstruction of calice and inter-septal space structure of P. damicornis sheds lights on its reef-building processes by reconstructing the budding patterns.
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