New #ScienceAdvances research finds that heat stress can disrupt and eventually destroy corals’ cilia-based ventilation systems. https://scim.ag/4unQvN9

Acute temperature effects on cilia beating increase coral deoxygenation

Ciliary flows buffer coral O2 supply under heat stress until a tipping point, above which hypoxia and tissue failure are induced.

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Coral reefs are increasingly threaten by marine heatwaves, but what pushes corals past their breaking point? New in @ScienceAdvances @science.org: we found that corals can lose the microscopic system that helps move oxygen around their tissues during heat stress 🪸 doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Acute temperature effects on cilia beating increase coral deoxygenation

Ciliary flows buffer coral O2 supply under heat stress until a tipping point, above which hypoxia and tissue failure are induced.

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Take a look at our new article where we present a system to spatially map oxygen and flow fields around corals and algae 🪸 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Thanks to @microsensing.bsky.social @MSCActions @villumscience.bsky.social