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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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Visual orientation by the crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) [PDF]
Coral Reefs, 2016 Photoreception in echinoderms has been known for over 200 years, but their visual capabilities remain poorly understood. As has been reported for some asteroids, the crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) possess a seemingly advanced eye at the tip of each of its 7–23 arms.
Petie, Ronald +3 more
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Diversity, 2016 Like most coral reef organisms, crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster spp.) are expected to be highly vulnerable to predation as they transition from a planktonic larval phase to settling among reef habitats.
Zara-Louise Cowan +3 more
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Crown-of-thorns starfish [PDF]
Current Biology, 2013 Why ‘crown-of-thorns’? The crown-of-thorns starfish is nearly the largest species of starfish (Asteroidea). It may be 50 cm or more in diameter and can have more than 15 arms. Its ‘crown-of-thorns’ are the long sharp spines that cover its upper surface. What is more, the spines are coated with a saponin toxin, which causes irritation to puncture wounds
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Biology, Ecology and Management of Crown-of-Thorns Starfish [PDF]
, 2017 Outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster spp.) are a major contributor to ongoing coral loss on reefs throughout the Indo-Pacific, thereby jeopardizing productivity and biodiversity of these important marine ecosystems. Controlling outbreak populations of Acanthaster spp.
Morgan Pratchett (Ed.) +1 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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The CSIRO Crown-of-Thorn Starfish Detection Dataset
, 2021 Crown-of-Thorn Starfish (COTS) outbreaks are a major cause of coral loss on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and substantial surveillance and control programs are underway in an attempt to manage COTS populations to ecologically sustainable levels. We release a large-scale, annotated underwater image dataset from a COTS outbreak area on the GBR, to ...
Liu, Jiajun +19 more
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Protecting Great Barrier Reef resilience through effective management of crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaks [PDF]
PLoS ONESamuel A. Matthews +23 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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