Embryonic Coral Cells, Enhancing Coral Growth Rates

[Tyrenlds]

now this is interesting... http://www.cdnn.info/news/eco/e050720.html

Maybe in the future we'll see LE Frags with artificially enhanced growth rates?

 

[miwoodar]

Wow, that is very interesting. Thanks for sharing. How do they get the coral 'stem cells'? Do you think the author is being literal about that part?

 

[xJake]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14426947#post14426947 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by miwoodar
Wow, that is very interesting. Thanks for sharing. How do they get the coral 'stem cells'? Do you think the author is being literal about that part?

Literally, they are the cells from a coral embryo. Corals can produce sexually, and as a product, they produce embryonic versions of themselves. The cells during the first stages of coral growth are extremely similar to "stem cells" in the human sense, so the author is definitely being quite literal.

This could definitely prove to be worth while, but I just hope that these new "super" corals won't become some type of "invasive species" that begins to spread across the world's oceans.

 

[Tyrenlds]

the paper is dated 2005... would love to see the size of these modified coral colonies, if they survived that is.

'Leonard Sonnenschein at the World Aquarium', shouldn't be to hard to get a hold of him... this could be very interesting

 

[eyesinthedrk]

Philippe Cousteau, president of the environmental advocacy group EarthEcho International, said growing coral in captivity is "very cutting-edge stuff . . . there are only a few people doing it."

"blink"

and to think i used to stay up late sunday nights to watch his dads shows

 

[acrodave]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14442555#post14442555 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by eyesinthedrk
Philippe Cousteau, president of the environmental advocacy group EarthEcho International, said growing coral in captivity is "very cutting-edge stuff . . . there are only a few people doing it."

"blink"

and to think i used to stay up late sunday nights to watch his dads shows

dont know how old that quote is but 10 years ago no one was keeping corals alive

 

[chrismunn]

whoa dude, i just posted an entire reply in the complete wrong thread! :lol:

: DELETE

 

[MCsaxmaster]

Just as a note, stem cells are common to any multicellular organism after sexual reproduction. After fusion of gametes you'll have a zygote (single fertilized cell). Depending on the organism, you can start to see early differentiation very shortly after cleavage starts (cleavage = cell division), or much later. Before cells become differentiated they are stem cells. As development continues they become more and more differentiated, depending on the organism.

cj

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

dont know how old that quote is but 10 years ago no one was keeping corals alive

We weren't? We kept tanks of dead corals?

 

[billsreef]

Randy,

It's funny, I had the same thoughts. I could have sworn my corals back than were quite alive and growing

 

[billsreef]

Come to think of it, I seem to recall keeping live corals even 20 years ago.

 

[rgulrich]

Hmm, same here. Strange, my memory must be going along with the advent of grey hair...
Ray

 

[Letmegrow]

This comes up a lot, and since I am from St. Louis I know more of the story.

He made the water hypersaline, killed all the corals and when someone replaced them he told his "students" that look ! the corals grew faster !!

This place orders Jellyfish with out having a tank set up for them.
They died as soon as they got into the 75F water(not that the amm/trites/trates wouldn't have killed them).

The also just ordered a Nautilus, provided by one of our LFS that has less of a conscience than the next guy.

A thread also came up a few months ago with them experimenting with electricity and corals.

They never got a hold of stem cells, they never made them grow faster, they falsify all the information and results.

I STILL offer to go and see Mr. Sonnenschein and interview him based on your submitted questions. I will record it and submit it here. This guy is bogus.

 

[Headache]

I don't know about the "stem cell" definition...Review your gen bio...Protostomes and dueterostomes (SP) with regards to 8 cell level development. (super early)
Protostoms (Cnidarians, Corals) have extremely early cell specilization (bye bye stem cells) so that is a bit far fetched for me.