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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 CSIRO Crown-of-Thorn Starfish Detection Dataset
CoRR, 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 ...
Jiajun Liu 0004 +19 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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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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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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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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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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