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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Protecting Great Barrier Reef resilience through effective management of crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks. [PDF]
PLoS ONEResilience-based management is essential to protect ecosystems in the Anthropocene. Unlike large-scale climate threats to Great Barrier Reef (GBR) corals, outbreaks of coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS; Acanthaster cf.
Samuel A Matthews +23 more
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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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Journal of Computer Sciences Institute, 2022 There is a great range of spectacular coral reefs in the ocean world. Unfortunately, they are in jeopardy, due to an overabundance of one specific starfish called the coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish (or COTS).
Quoc Toan Nguyen
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Divalent metal transporter-related protein restricts animals to marine habitats
Communications Biology, 2021 Mieko Sassa et al. report a novel divalent metal transporter protein (DMTRP) in the crown-of-thorns starfish genome and determine that all organisms with a DMTRP gene are located in marine habitats.
Mieko Sassa +9 more
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Carotenoids in Marine Invertebrates Living along the Kuroshio Current Coast
Marine Drugs, 2011 Carotenoids of the corals Acropora japonica, A. secale, and A. hyacinthus, the tridacnid clam Tridacna squamosa, the crown-of-thorns starfish Acanthaster planci, and the small sea snail Drupella fragum were investigated. The corals and the tridacnid clam
Yoshikazu Sakagami +9 more
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Diversity, 2017 Specific patterns in the initiation and spread of reef-wide outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish are important, both to understand potential causes (or triggers) of outbreaks and to develop more effective and highly targeted management and containment ...
Hugo B. Harrison +4 more
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Impacts of ocean warming on the Pacific crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster cf.solaris) [PDF]
, 2023 Beth Lang investigated the impacts of temperature on the coral-feeding crown-of-thorns starfish. She found that the early life stages and adults are negatively impacted by magnitudes of warming expected to occur in the near future.
Lang, Bethan Jade
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Marine Lipids from the Crown-of-Thorns Starfish: GC–MS Profiling of Lipophilic Constituents and Evaluation of Their Antimicrobial Activity Against Clinically Relevant Pathogens [PDF]
Records of Pharmaceutical & Biomedical SciencesThe crown-of-thorns starfish represents an underexplored source of marine-derived metabolites with potential ecological and biomedical relevance. This study provides a comprehensive chemical and antimicrobial investigation of the hexane extract of the ...
Salma Ibrahim +5 more
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Filling the gaps: first record of the Crown-of-thorns Starfish, Acanthaster planci (Linnaeus, 1758) (Spinulosida: Acanthasteridae), at Gorgona Island, Colombia, Tropical Eastern Pacific [PDF]
Check List, 2017 We report the occurrence of a major corallivore, the Crown-of-thorns Starfish Acanthaster planci, on the coral reefs of Gorgona Island, Tropical Eastern Pacific.
Fernando Zapata +3 more
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