Scientists found a free-living coral species actively travels toward blue light resembling its natural habitat and moves like ...

We used larvae of the nudibranch Phestilla sibogae settling onto coral reefs as the system to address this question. Laser Doppler anemometry was utilized within a laboratory flume to measure water ...

The remaining half of the larvae travel away from the reef system into the open ocean. "We found that local-scale dispersal of coral larvae helps form a well-connected reef network, which in turn ...