Lateral light transfer ensures efficient resource distribution in symbiont-bearing corals

• Main Authors: Larkum, Anthony William D., Wangpraseurt, Daniel, Franklin, Jim, Szabó, Milán, Ralph, Peter J., Kühl, Michael
• Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences; Coral Reef; Tissue Optics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88223; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45711
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Coral tissue optics has received very little attention in the past, although the interaction between tissue and light is central to our basic understanding of coral physiology. Here we used fibre-optic and electrochemical microsensors along with variable chlorophyll fluorescence imaging to directly...