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From Coral Color to Tissue Heating: How Host Pigments Redirect Light Within the Tissue
Swathi Murthy, Elena Bollati, Anya Salih, Michael Kühl
The paper models how coral host pigments affect light propagation and tissue heating, showing distinct roles of chromoproteins and fluorescent proteins in energy distribution and heat generation.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.20.760344