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Abundance of the bearded fireworm Hermodice carunculata (Polychaeta: Amphinomidae) increases across a euphotic-mesophotic depth gradient in the remote St. Peter and St. Paul’s Archipelago

Ocean and Coastal Research, 2023
The bearded fireworm Hermodice carunculata is widely distributed across tropical and subtropical Atlantic and Mediterranean Oceans and was previously considered to be mostly associated with shallow reefs.
Marcos Rogerio Rosa, Erika Flávia Crispim de Santana, Gabriel Malta De Farias, Paulo Yukio Gomes Sumida, Ronaldo Bastos Francini Filho   +4 more
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Electrochemical Approach for Isolation of Chitin from the Skeleton of the Black Coral Cirrhipathes sp. (Antipatharia)

Marine Drugs, 2020
The development of novel and effective methods for the isolation of chitin, which remains one of the fundamental aminopolysaccharides within skeletal structures of diverse marine invertebrates, is still relevant. In contrast to numerous studies on chitin
Krzysztof Nowacki, Izabela Stępniak, Enrico Langer, Mikhail Tsurkan, Marcin Wysokowski, Iaroslav Petrenko, Yuliya Khrunyk, Andriy Fursov, Marzia Bo, Giorgio Bavestrello, Yvonne Joseph, Hermann Ehrlich   +11 more
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Comparative Genomic Analysis of Cold-Water Coral-Derived Sulfitobacter faviae: Insights into Their Habitat Adaptation and Metabolism

Marine Drugs, 2023
Sulfitobacter is one of the major sulfite-oxidizing alphaproteobacterial groups and is often associated with marine algae and corals. Their association with the eukaryotic host cell may have important ecological contexts due to their complex lifestyle ...
Shituan Lin, Yunxue Guo, Zixian Huang, Kaihao Tang, Xiaoxue Wang   +4 more
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Cryptic Diversity of Black Band Disease Cyanobacteria in Siderastrea siderea Corals Revealed by Chemical Ecology and Comparative Genome-Resolved Metagenomics

Marine Drugs, 2023
Black band disease is a globally distributed and easily recognizable coral disease. Despite years of study, the etiology of this coral disease, which impacts dozens of stony coral species, is not completely understood.
Julie L. Meyer, Sarath P. Gunasekera, Anya L. Brown, Yousong Ding, Stephanie Miller, Max Teplitski, Valerie J. Paul   +6 more
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Low pH reduces the virulence of black band disease on Orbicella faveolata. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
Black band is a deadly coral disease found worldwide, which may become more virulent as oceanic conditions continue to change. To determine the effects of climate change and ocean acidification on black band disease virulence, Orbicella faveolata corals ...
Erinn M Muller, Nicole M Leporacci, Keir J Macartney, Alessandra G Shea, Rachel E Crane, Emily R Hall, Kim B Ritchie   +6 more
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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.
Jeremy Horowitz, Dennis M. Opresko, María del P. González-García, Andrea M. Quattrini   +3 more
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The Diversity and Ecological Role of Non-scleractinian Corals (Antipatharia and Alcyonacea) on Scleractinian Cold-Water Coral Mounds

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019
Cold-water coral carbonate mounds, created by framework-building scleractinian corals, are also important habitats for non-scleractinian corals, whose ecology and role are understudied in deep-sea environments. This paper describes the diversity, ecology
Laurence Helene De Clippele, Veerle A. I. Huvenne, Tina N. Molodtsova, J. Murray Roberts   +3 more
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Black Mantle Tissue of Endolithic Mussels (Leiosolenus spp.) Is Cloaking Borehole Orifices in Caribbean Reef Corals

Diversity, 2022
Bioerosion caused by boring mussels (Mytilidae: Lithophaginae) can negatively impact coral reef health. During biodiversity surveys of coral-associated fauna in Curaçao (southern Caribbean), morphological variation in mussel boreholes was studied ...
Bert W. Hoeksema, Annabel Smith-Moorhouse, Charlotte E. Harper, Roel. J. van der Schoot, Rosalie F. Timmerman, Roselle Spaargaren, Sean J. Langdon-Down   +6 more
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Nuclear eDNA metabarcoding primers for anthozoan coral biodiversity assessment [PDF]

PeerJ
The distributions of anthozoan corals are undercharacterized due to their wide bathymetric ranges, occurrences in remote locales, and difficulties of identification from morphology alone.
Luke McCartin, Emma Saso, Samuel A. Vohsen, Nicole Pittoors, Penny Demetriades, Catherine S. McFadden, Andrea M. Quattrini, Santiago Herrera   +7 more
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Hawaiian black coral (Antipatharia) complete mitochondrial genomes have limited phylogenetic signal for taxonomic resolution of species [PDF]

PeerJ
Most 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.
Van Wishingrad, Leah E. K. Shizuru, Kenji Takata, Anthony D. Montgomery, Daniel Wagner, Robert J. Toonen   +5 more
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