接枝的SPS珊瑚菌株,即荧光蛋白的“感染”,是一种非常流行的自然现象,珊瑚农民在水族馆菌落中努力发展。这种奇异的发生是广泛的,可以在一系列珊瑚群中找到,但最常见于Acropora,cyplastrea,但是还有更多关于GFP infection or grafting in蒙蒂托拉,尤其是电镀品种。
蒙蒂托拉digitatawas once one of the most common of all SPS corals in aquariums, but its fast growing tendencies can make them hard to manage sometimes. Interestingly the occurrence of foreign fluorescent proteins appearing in branching蒙蒂托拉到目前为止,一直非常罕见,实际上不存在。值得庆幸的是,我们在全球珊瑚上的家族一直在开发可能是第一个“可行”的嫁接digitata菌株,该菌株是从不到一年前就开始生长的小碎片开始的。
在我们深入研究手头的压力之前,我们想触摸带有异物蛋白感染的珊瑚的生存能力 - 在这里看到绿色斑点很常见sustained在组织的边缘增长。需要时间,耐心,战略刺激不同的生长领域,并有很多运气才能嫁接蒙蒂托拉strain really going, and WWC has some experience since they were the first to grow the red & green grafted蒙蒂托拉capricornis在水族馆的爱好中。
Circling back to the new strain in focus, from the picture we thought for sure that the grafted digitata was a green variety that had been infected with红色的荧光蛋白。然而,在与他们的珊瑚文化专家讨论后,我们后来了解到这种新颖的珊瑚菌株实际上恰恰相反。红色/橙色分支Digi感染了绿色的蛋白质。
如果您从未见过或更糟,从来没有成长出自己的嫁接珊瑚several varieties available in the aquarium hobby如今,这些都是真正有趣而有趣的珊瑚品种,例如两种菌株。我们玩过GFP感染的电镀蒙蒂托拉但现在全球珊瑚正在之前a grafted digitata strain already planted across three different show tanks, we can’t wait to see what that Xmas red and green fingers蒙蒂托拉digitatawill look like!