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Transient shifts in bacterial communities associated with the temperate gorgonian Paramuricea clavata in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 BACKGROUND: Bacterial communities that are associated with tropical reef-forming corals are being increasingly recognized for their role in host physiology and health.
Marie La Rivière +3 more
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Reef fishes of Saba Bank, Netherlands Antilles : Assemblage structure across a gradient of habitat types [PDF]
, 2010 Saba Bank is a 2,200 km2 submerged carbonate platform in the northeastern Caribbean Sea off Saba Island, Netherlands Antilles. The presence of reef-like geomorphic features and significant shelf edge coral development on Saba Bank have led to the ...
Debrot, A.O. +3 more
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Scientia Marina, 2018 Gorgonian species play an important ecological role in the structure and function of marine communities. Human activities are negatively affecting the conservation status of gorgonian populations in the Mediterranean.
Raouia Ghanem +3 more
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2020 The pink sea fan Eunicella verrucosa is a habitat-forming octocoral living in the East Atlantic and in the Mediterranean Sea where, under proper circumstances, it can form large populations known as coral forests.
Giovanni Chimienti +2 more
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Uprolides N, O and P from the Panamanian Octocoral Eunicea succinea. [PDF]
, 2016 Three new diterpenes, uprolide N (1), uprolide O (2), uprolide P (3) and a known one, dolabellane (4), were isolated from the CH₂Cl₂-MeOH extract of the gorgonian octocoral Eunicea succinea, collected from Bocas del Toro, on the Caribbean coast of Panama.
Fernandez, Patricia L +7 more
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Natural Product Chemistry of Gorgonian Corals of Genus Junceella—Part II
Marine Drugs, 2011 The structures, names, bioactivities, and references of 81 new secondary metabolites obtained from gorgonian corals belonging to the genus Junceella are described in this review.
Mei-Chin Lu +12 more
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Vulnerable Forests of the Pink Sea Fan Eunicella verrucosa in the Mediterranean Sea
Diversity, 2020 The pink sea fan Eunicella verrucosa (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Alcyonacea) can form coral forests at mesophotic depths in the Mediterranean Sea. Despite the recognized importance of these habitats, they have been scantly studied and their distribution is ...
Giovanni Chimienti
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Strandings of NE Atlantic gorgonians [PDF]
Biological Conservation, 2017 Abstract Northeast coral gardens provide vital breeding and feeding habitats for fishes of conservation and commercial importance. Such habitats are increasingly at risk of destruction as a result of over fishing, ocean warming, acidification and marine litter.
E.V. Sheehan +4 more
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Marine Drugs, 2012 The structures, names, bioactivities and references of 105 natural products obtained from gorgonian corals belonging to the family Plexauridae with an Indo-Pacific distribution are described in this review.
Ping-Jyun Sung +11 more
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Reproduction, energy storage and metabolic requirements in a mesophotic population of the gorgonian Paramuricea macrospina. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 This study examined the sexual reproductive cycle, energy storage and metabolic requirements of a Mediterranean gorgonian in a mesophotic ecosystem (~70 m depth).
Jordi Grinyó +8 more
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