Local Conditions Influence the Prokaryotic Communities Associated With the Mesophotic Black Coral Antipathella subpinnata [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 Black corals are important habitat-forming species in the mesophotic and deep-sea zones of the world’s oceans because of their arborescent colony structure and tendency to form animal forests. Although we have started unraveling the ecology of mesophotic
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Description of a new species of black coral in the family Aphanipathidae (Anthozoa, Antipatharia) from Puerto Rico [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2023 Black corals (Anthozoa: Antipatharia) are an anthozoan lineage in the class Hexacorallia that occur across a wide range of habitats from the tropics to the poles and from surface waters to depths deeper than 8000 m.
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Environmental Status and Geomorphological Characterisation of Seven Black Coral Forests on the Sardinian Continental Shelf (NW Mediterranean Sea) [PDF]
Biology, 2022 Marine animal forests are key mesophotic ecosystems that are under threat from increasing natural and human pressures. Despite the fact that various international agreements strive to preserve these fragile ecosystems, the environmental status of the ...
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Hawaiian black coral (Antipatharia) complete mitochondrial genomes have limited phylogenetic signal for taxonomic resolution of species [PDF]
PeerJMost inferences about black coral (Antipatharia) phylogenetics have relied on a handful of molecular markers from PCR-Sanger methods but recently complete mitogenomes are shedding additional light on relationships.
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Can black coral forests be detected using multibeam echosounder “multi-detect” data?
Frontiers in Remote Sensing, 2023 The black coral Anthipatella wollastoni forms marine animal forests in the mesophotic zone. The spatial extent of black coral forests is not well known in many regions.
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Association between deep-water scale-worms (Annelida: Polynoidae) and black corals (Cnidaria: Antipatharia) in the Southwestern Atlantic [PDF]
Zoologia (Curitiba), 2019 Polynoid scale-worms have been found living as commensals with deep-water antipatharians (commonly known as black corals) in the Potiguar Basin, off Rio Grande do Norte State, Northeastern Brazil.
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Jurnal Ilmiah Perikanan dan Kelautan, 2021 Highlight • Light intensity from plastic waste was positively correlated with the abundance of zooxanthellae in corals. • The abundance of zooxanthellae between sack plastic and clear plastic treatment tended to be the same.
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Aquaculture Reports, 2022 Leopard coral grouper (Plectropomus leopardus) is an indispensable kind of fish in the coral reef ecosystems and marine aquaculture, and the body color of leopard coral grouper is exhibited in black, brown or red.
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Diversity, 2023 Photographic evidence of some important coral diseases (black band disease, black disease/Terpios hoshinota, white syndrome, pink line syndrome, pink spots, invertebrate galls, skeletal growth anomalies, tissue loss), coral competing sponges, and coral ...
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Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2021 We report the complete mitochondrial genomes of two antipatharian species, Stichopathes sp. SCBUCN-8849 and Stichopathes sp. SCBUCN-8850, collected between 120 and 180 m depth off Rapa Nui (∼ −27.1°, −109.4°).
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