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Science 8 August 1980:
Vol. 209. no. 4457, pp. 689 - 691
DOI: 10.1126/science.209.4457.689
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Detection, Pursuit, and Overgrowth of Tropical Gorgonians by Milleporid Hydrocorals: Perseus and Medusa Revisited

CHARLES M. WAHLE 1

1 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218

Encounters leading to competitive interactions between colonies on coral reefs are to some extent accidents of patterns of recruitment and growth. In contrast, colonies of Millepora spp. actively detect nearby arborescent gorgonians and subsequently redirect growth in order to contact and overgrow them. Detection is dependent on water flow over the two colonies.

Submitted on January 30, 1980
Revised on May 5, 1980


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