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 The secret of coral’s reproduction  is opened at last.

The command of the Australian and Israeli researchers has learnt a secret of corals reproduction at moonlight.

Corals buttonhole uncountable quantities of berries and spermatozoa to a surface at the moment of the marriage period (as if blow up) and there is it practically simultaneously. This begins «diving performance» right after full moons and some nights last successively.

Minds of scientists were excited long time with a riddle as beings not having eyes can to react to moonlight and so synchronously to execute a ceremony of continuation of a sort.   Since 1981, researchers tried to find out, that could become a strong stimulant for the largest lunar sex on the Earth.

As a result, scientists had been found out an ancient photosensitive gene which right after full moons acts as a trigger cock for reproduction of corals of the Big Barrier reef of Australia.

Genes known as cryptochromes exist in corals, fish and insects and in mammals including in the person, they have primitive property to feel light by means of the pigmentary gear.

he command headed by Mary Kuri Sholar, Doctor Oren Levi from University of Queensland has reported the opening as about a nature miracle. Gene Cryto opened by them, stimulated with a weak dark blue moonlight, plays a main role in reproduction of corals.

Professor Ove Hoeg-Gildberg heading at University of Queensland laboratory (in which these genes have been opened) has reported, what is it a key to one of main riddles of coral reefs.

  Scientists are more narrow asked many years a question as corals (which do not have eyes) can identify moonlight and during precisely nominated time of all couple of days in a year start «to throw caviar».

Exhibiting corals of different color and applying different light intensity on a coral reef during a full moon, doctor Levi (Dr Levy) has found out, that gene Cryto is activest in Acropora corals.

Scientists have added the information concerning a coral cryptochromes from the big library of coral genes, having found out that many of them have arisen in initial phases of organisms on a planet. They have been saved throughout hundreds millions years and still are in modern animals and people. These genes show, that people and corals – actually remote relatives.

Whether they have something the general between human associations about the moon and the romanticist – it is not known, but most likely cryptochromes still play a role in our internal clocks.

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