Heat-Tolerant Genes May Rescue Corals from Increasing Temperatures (4 of 8) (IMAGE)

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Heat-Tolerant Genes May Rescue Corals from Increasing Temperatures (4 of 8)

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Diver surveys temperature-tolerant corals from the Far Northern Great Barrier Reef. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 26, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by G.B. Dixon at University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas, and colleagues was titled, "Genomic determinants of coral heat tolerance across latitudes."

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[Credit: Dr. Ray Berkelmans, Australian Institute of Marine Science]

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