Monitoring the health of the coral reef

Scientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute have “genetically bar-coded”

80% of the 540 species of fish living on Eilat’s coral reef. They can match pictures of the larvae to their DNA sequence. This information will help monitor the health of the reef ecosystem.

https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/making-larvae-count

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0413-2

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