Identification of Crown of Thorns Starfish (COTS) using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and attention model. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 Coral reefs play important roles in the marine ecosystem, from providing shelter to aquatic lives to being a source of income to others. However, they are in danger from outbreaks of species like the Crown of Thorns Starfish (COTS) and the widespread ...
Maleika Heenaye-Mamode Khan +3 more
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Significant Changes in Bacterial Communities Associated with Pocillopora Corals Ingestion by Crown-of-Thorns Starfish: An Important Factor Affecting the Coral’s Health [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2022 Coral ingestion by crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) is an important cause of coral reef degradation, although the impacts of COTS feeding on coral-associated microbial communities are not well understood.
Zhenjun Qin +7 more
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A family of crown-of-thorns starfish spine-secreted proteins modify adult conspecific behavior [PDF]
iScienceSummary: With growing interest in utilizing semiochemicals to control pest species, recent investigations have begun to consider semiochemicals to control outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish (CoTS; Acanthaster cf.
Richard J. Harris +11 more
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Rates of Spawning and Mortality Using Contrasting Methods for Culling Pacific Crown-of-Thorns Starfish, Acanthaster cf. solaris [PDF]
BiologyTimely, concerted, and persistent culling (or manual removal) is required to effectively manage population irruptions of crown-of-thorns starfish (CoTS; Acanthaster spp.).
Morgan S. Pratchett +6 more
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Body size and substrate type modulate movement by the western Pacific crown-of-thorns starfish, Acanthaster solaris. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 The movement capacity of the crown-of-thorns starfishes (Acanthaster spp.) is a primary determinant of both their distribution and impact on coral assemblages.
Morgan S Pratchett +8 more
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Eyes and negative phototaxis in juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish, Acanthaster species complex [PDF]
Biology Open, 2019 As a corallivore, the crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS; Acanthaster species complex), has significant impacts on coral mortality and community structure on tropical reefs throughout its Indo-Pacific range.
Camilla Korsvig-Nielsen +3 more
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Identification of putative olfactory G-protein coupled receptors in Crown-of-Thorns starfish, Acanthaster planci [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2017 Background In marine organisms, and in particular for benthic invertebrates including echinoderms, olfaction is a dominant sense with chemosensation being a critical signalling process.
Rebecca E. Roberts +5 more
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Multiomics analysis of the giant triton snail salivary gland, a crown-of-thorns starfish predator [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2017 The giant triton snail (Charonia tritonis) is one of the few natural predators of the adult Crown-of-Thorns starfish (COTS), a corallivore that has been damaging to many reefs in the Indo-Pacific.
U. Bose +5 more
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The Crown-of-Thorns starfish Acanthaster planci (Linne') in Ceylon [PDF]
, 1972 The Crown-of-Thorns starfish Acanthaster planci is a predator of coral and has been responsible for the widespread destruction of coral reefs. In Sri Lanka this starfish was first reported by Clarke in 1915. Recently skin-divers reported that Acanthaster planci was present in very large numbers in the coastal waters off Trincomalee, especially on the ...
De Bruin, G.H.P.
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Culling corallivores improves short-term coral recovery under bleaching scenarios
Nature Communications, 2022 This study uses multispecies modelling to show that the management of a coral predator, the crown-of-thorns starfish, could help corals recover following bleaching events.
Jacob G. D. Rogers, Éva E. Plagányi
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