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Senescence and dying signals in a reef building coral

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Decreases in two physiological processes (reproduction and growth) have been shown to precede the advent of colony death in the branching coralStylophora pistillata. These diminutions were sometimes detectable even 6 months and more before any first visible sign of tissue mortality was observed.

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  1. George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, 69978, Tel Aviv, Israel

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We thank N.D. Holland, P. Dayton and G. Coker for critical reading of the manuscript. We are grateful to Z. Wolodarsky, A. Shafir and Y. Benayahu for their friendship and help in various ways.

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Rinkevich, B., Loya, Y. Senescence and dying signals in a reef building coral. Experientia 42, 320–322 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01942521

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