Aiptasia larvae are phenotypically validated as a model of coral bleaching using high-throughput machine-learning image analysis
I. Rossi, Emily K. Meier, Dania Nanes Sarfati, Francisco Guadalupe Zamora, Samantha Fung, Phillip A. Cleves, Amy E. Herr
This paper validates Aiptasia larvae as a coral bleaching model and introduces SYMPHONY, an ML pipeline that efficiently identifies algal localization in larvae under heat stress.
bioRxiv · Aug 28, 2026 · PreprintBioengineering