De coral has de rhythm to beat de night-time blues

11:09 AM Mon 7 Feb 2011 GMT

'Rhythm helps to keep corals going through the lonely low-point of the night, when their partner robs them blind. - Coral Reef Studies' James Cook University Click Here to view large photo

The world's corals not only display stunning beauty and diversity ? they also have rhythm, man. And that helps to keep them going through the lonely low-?-point of the night, when their partner robs them blind. That corals, among the simplest of Earth's creatures, have some curiously human-?-like attributes is emerging in a fresh set of revelations from by an international team of Australian and Israeli coral geneticists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies which highlight some of the things we and corals have in common, thanks to our shared genes. Both corals and people have ...

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