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Accounting for Intra- and Intergenomic Sequence Variation in Reference Barcodes Improves eDNA Metabarcoding Biodiversity Assessment. [PDF]

Mol Ecol Resour
ABSTRACT Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding can rapidly characterise biodiversity, yet its accuracy and effectiveness are limited by incomplete DNA barcode reference databases. We evaluated how comprehensive reference databases that include sequence variation within genomes (intragenomic) and across individuals and species (intergenomic) improve ...
McCartin LJ, Vohsen SA, Wood AL, Horowitz J, Orozco-Juarbe JJ, Pittoors N, Morrissey D, Vaga CF, Hansel CM, Collins AG, Quattrini AM, Herrera S.   +11 more
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Megabenthic assemblages from South Adriatic marine mesophotic environments [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Mesophotic habitats in the Mediterranean Sea host rich and diverse benthic assemblages, dominated by invertebrates alongside sciaphilous algae. Recent findings suggest that certain mesophotic bioconstructions built by invertebrates, while classified ...
Guadalupe Giménez, Cataldo Pierri, Giuseppe Corriero, Giorgio Bavestrello, Jacopo Giampaoletti, Maria Mercurio, Carlotta Nonnis Marzano, Caterina Longo   +7 more
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Benthic and fish community composition on mesophotic reefs in Grand Cayman [PDF]

PeerJ
Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems (MCEs) represent unique ecological habitats that range from 30 to 150 m deep, harbouring phylogenetically distinct species and offering refuge for many taxa during times of environmental stress. Yet owing to inaccessibility of
Lucas Le Gall, Jack V. Johnson, Alex Chequer, Matthew Louis Doherty, Gretchen Goodbody-Gringley   +4 more
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Marine heatwaves in the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea: their mechanisms and impacts on shallow and mesophotic coral ecosystems

Science of the Total Environment
The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) World Heritage Area and adjacent Coral Sea Marine Park are under serious threat from global climate change. This study used Daily Optimally Interpolated Sea Surface Temperature (DOISST) data to identify major marine heatwaves (MHWs) that have occurred in this region over the last three decades (1992-2022).
Zhi Huang, Ming Feng, Steven J Dalton
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Variability in thermal stress thresholds of corals across depths

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023
Mesophotic habitats are potential refugia for corals in the context of climate change. The seawater temperature in a mesophotic habitat is generally lower than in a shallow habitat.
Parviz Tavakoli-Kolour, Frederic Sinniger, Masaya Morita, Takashi Nakamura, Takashi Nakamura, Saki Harii   +5 more
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Quantifying connectivity between mesophotic and shallow coral larvae in Okinawa Island, Japan: a quadruple nested high-resolution modeling study

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023
Coral bleaching has recently been occurring extensively across the world’s oceans, primarily because of high water temperatures. Mesophotic corals that inhabit depths of approximately 30–150 m are expected to survive bleaching events and reseed shallow ...
Kimika Takeyasu, Yusuke Uchiyama, Satoshi Mitarai   +2 more
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Depth-Independent Reproduction in the Reef Coral Porites astreoides from Shallow to Mesophotic Zones. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Mesophotic coral ecosystems between 30-150 m may be important refugia habitat for coral reefs and associated benthic communities from climate change and coastal development.
Daniel M Holstein, Tyler B Smith, Claire B Paris   +2 more
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Mesophotic coral bleaching associated with changes in thermocline depth

Nature Communications, 2023
As global temperatures continue to rise, shallow coral reef bleaching has become more intense and widespread. Mesophotic coral ecosystems reside in deeper (30–150 m), cooler water and were thought to offer a refuge to shallow-water reefs.
Clara Diaz, Nicola L. Foster, Martin J. Attrill, Adam Bolton, Peter Ganderton, Kerry L. Howell, Edward Robinson, Phil Hosegood   +7 more
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Unexplored Refugia with High Cover of Scleractinian Leptoseris spp. and Hydrocorals Stylaster flabelliformis at Lower Mesophotic Depths (75–100 m) on Lava Flows at Reunion Island (Southwestern Indian Ocean)

Diversity, 2021
Despite increased attention over the last decade on Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems (MCEs) [...]
Ludovic Hoarau, Héloïse Rouzé, Émilie Boissin, Nicole Gravier-Bonnet, Patrick Plantard, Camille Loisil, Lionel Bigot, Pascale Chabanet, Priscille Labarrère, Lucie Penin, Mehdi Adjeroud, Thierry Mulochau   +11 more
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Mesophotic Gorgonian Corals Evolved Multiple Times and Faster Than Deep and Shallow Lineages

Diversity, 2021
Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems (MCEs) develop on a unique environment, where abrupt environmental changes take place. Using a time-calibrated molecular phylogeny (mtDNA: mtMutS), we examined the lineage membership of mesophotic gorgonian corals ...
Juan A. Sánchez, Fanny L. González-Zapata, Carlos Prada, Luisa F. Dueñas   +3 more
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