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Volume 26, Number 3
07 February 2007

pp 635-913

Bloomy - The columnar colonies of the hard coral Goniopora spec. are made by polyps which have 24 finger-like tentacles surrounding a very prominent pink cone-like mouth, and which are only rarely seen extended during the day. The picture was captured off the shore of Ellaidhoo, a small island within the Ari atoll (Maldives) with a Nikonos RS/50mm macro lens on Kodak Elitechrome 100 ASA colour slide film. The photographer, Wolfgang Seifarth, is a molecular biologist at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. His main research interests focus on the impact of endogenous retroviral elements (HERV) on the human genome, on marine biology, and on underwater photography.

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