Wound repair in Montipora capitata |
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| Authors: | Thierry M. Work Greta S. Aeby |
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| Affiliation: | a US Geological Survey, National Wildlife Health Center, Honolulu Field Station, PO Box 50167, Honolulu, HI 96850, USA
b Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, PO Box 1346, Kaneohe, HI 96744, USA |
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| Abstract: | We documented the microscopic morphology of tissue healing in Montipora capitata. Fragments from two healthy coral colonies were traumatized by scraping tissue and skeleton and monitored in flow-through seawater tables every 2-4 days for 40 days for gross and cellular changes. Grossly, corals appeared healed and repigmented by Day 40. Histologically, traumatized issues were undistinguishable from intact untraumatized tissues by Day 12. We suspect that the calicoblastic epidermis of basal body wall is pluripotential and can develop into surface epidermis when needed. |
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| Keywords: | Montipora capitata Healing Pathology Scleractinia Trauma Coral |
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