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Scientists Freeze Reef Samples for Marine 'Bank'


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Natalie Poyhonen

Source: ABC News

November 29, 2011

 

"Marine researchers say they are freezing coral samples from the Great Barrier Reef off Queensland as an insurance policy for the future.

 

In what is said to be an Australian first, scientists have frozen coral embryonic cells and sperm to create a bank of the species.

 

The cryo-preserved specimens will be held in a specialist facility for genetic material at the Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo in New South Wales."

 

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