image: This is the experimental setup with real and artificial seaweed after three days with gobies removed from the coral. Note the bleaching of the coral beneath the real seaweed. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 9, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Danielle Dixson and Mark Hay at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Ga. was titled, "Corals Chemically Cue Mutualistic Fishes to Remove Competing Seaweeds." view more
Credit: Image courtesy of Danielle Dixson