[Coral-List] more on tumors in Hydra

[Douglas Fenner]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/immortal-creature-create-form-cancer-011321516.html

Interestingly, Hydra can form soft tissue tumors, while as far as I know,
fire corals (Millepora), which are also hydrozoans, don't.  Nor do
scleractinian corals as far as I know.
Cheers, Doug

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Douglas Fenner
Coral Reef Consulting
Subcontractor to Lynker Corporation
PO Box 997390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799-6298  USA


“The ultimate question, I believe, is not whether mankind can afford to
leave a few places on our planet in near-natural conditions.  Rather, can
we afford not to?”   CRC Sheppard, 2024. The Chagos Archipelago, a
biological biography.  CRC Press.


Europe's heat-related deaths (over 47,000 people in 2023)


https://www.science.org/content/article/news-glance-europe-s-heat-related-deaths-antarctic-vegetation-and-stonehenge-s-faraway


Fenner, D. 2023. Corals of Hawai’i, 2nd edition.  Mutual Publishing,
Honolulu, and Maui Ocean Center.  440 pp.  (includes 167 page section on
coral biology and coral reef ecology)

https://mauioceancenter.com/shop/



Sheppard, C., Fenner, D., Sheppard, A.  2017.  Corals of Chagos.
http://chagosinformationportal.org/corals


Fenner, D.  2020.  Can we save coral reefs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SM8bEm3ocI&t=76s