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Dry Tortugas National Park A diver applies antibiotics to an elliptical star coral with stony coral tissue loss disease in the Tortugas. As stony coral disease carved a catastrophic path along Florida’s reef tract and parts of the Caribbean decimating the boulder corals that help build reefs scientists raced to collect healthy corals, before the disease struck, and untangle genetics to breed more resilient offspring. Now, they are working on another piece of the puzzle: determining whether the corals can survive in the disease’s wake. “There s concern that if there s disease out there, where are we going to plant these corals that may get the disease or expose those wild colonies to disease,” said Martine D Alessandro, a University of Miami researcher at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science working on the project. “The idea is to see what happens when we plant these corals, if disease does become introduced or if the corals we plant are more su

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