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Article: Patterns of fluorescent protein expression in scleractinian corals.
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- The Biological Bulletin
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
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Introduction
Fluorescence of living corals has been recognized for many years (Catala, 1959; Burns et al., 1967; Kawaguti, 1969; Schlichter et al., 1986; Mazel, 1995; Hoegh-Guldberg and Jones, 1999; Zawada and Jaffe, 2003). It has been
discovered that the fluorescence is due to the coral's production of a wide spectrum of unique proteins (Mazel, 1995; Matz et at., 1999; Myers et al., 1999; Dove et al., 2000; Lukyanov et al., 2000; Mazel et al., 2003). However, the role or function that fluorescence plays among these organisms, which has been historically been debated (Kawaguti, 1944), remains undetermined (Oswald et al., 2007).
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