Coral Spawning: The Global Event Shaping Marine Life
Every year, millions of coral colonies across the world's oceans release eggs and sperm in perfectly synchronized events triggered by moonlight, water temperature, and darkness cues—a reproductive spectacle that sustains entire marine ecosystems worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Recent breakthroughs have revealed the genetic and environmental mechanisms driving this synchrony, enabling scientists to artificially trigger spawning, preserve coral gametes indefinitely, and deploy millions o...
