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ICRS 2026 Auckland: @hifmb.de marine conservation talks

And so it begins: stag db coral genotyping workshop at ICRS today 13:00, Uni Auckland, Bldg 302, room MEET 31

Please say hello to Aquaumbra aranea! Aquaumbra means “water ghost”, while aranea refers to the spider-web-like reticulations around the polyps. This soft coral was discovered in the fjords of New Zealand at depths between 100 and 200 m. #science #coral www.mapress.com/zt/article/v...

A new soft coral species, Aquaumbra aranea sp. nov. (Octocorallia: Malacalcyonacea: Aquaumbridae), from Fiordland, Aotearoa (New Zealand) | Zootaxa www.mapress.com

🧬 New preprint on coral somatic evolution! We compare the robust coral Orbicella faveolata with the complex coral Acropora palmata. 80x whole genome sequencing shows that O. faveolata has high fixation of somatic variants in older interior polyps consistent with a segregated germline.