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The Influence of Foureye Butterflyfish (Chaetodon capistratus) and Symbiodiniaceae on the Transmission of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Marine diseases have caused large scale decreases in coral cover across the Caribbean and are unfortunately projected to increase as sea surface temperatures rise.
Kara Titus, Lauren O’Connell, Kristiaan Matthee, Michael Childress   +3 more
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Salpivory by Colonial Reef Corals at Curaçao, Southern Caribbean

Diversity, 2021
A salp swarm was observed in Director’s Bay, Curaçao in July 2021, where salps were caught and consumed by three scleractinian colonial reef corals: Madracis auretenra, Locke, Weil & Coates, 2017; Meandrina meandrites (Linnaeus, 1758), and Montastraea ...
Lars J. V. ter Horst, Bert W. Hoeksema
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Understanding Dynamic Molecular Responses Is Key to Designing Environmental Stress Experiments: A Review of Gene and Protein Expression in Cnidaria Under Stress. [PDF]

Mol Ecol
ABSTRACT Gene and protein expression analyses are powerful tools to investigate the responses of cnidarians to stress, providing information on both genetic and functional variation and capturing dynamic shifts in organismal physiology. As the use of high throughput sequencing to understand responses of cnidarians to stressors is still relatively new ...
Molinari CG, McDougall C, Pitt KA.
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Gene Expression Response to Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Transmission in M. cavernosa and O. faveolata From Florida

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
Since 2014, corals within Florida’s Coral Reef have been dying at an unprecedented rate due to stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD). Here we describe the transcriptomic outcomes of three different SCTLD transmission experiments performed at the ...
Nikki Traylor-Knowles, Michael T. Connelly, Benjamin D. Young, Katherine Eaton, Erinn M. Muller, Valerie J. Paul, Blake Ushijima, Allyson DeMerlis, Allyson DeMerlis, Melissa K. Drown, Ashley Goncalves, Ashley Goncalves, Nicholas Kron, Grace A. Snyder, Cecily Martin, Kevin Rodriguez   +15 more
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Measuring Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Induction and Lesion Progression Within Two Intermediately Susceptible Species, Montastraea cavernosa and Orbicella faveolata

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
During the last several decades, Florida’s Coral Reef (FCR) has been impacted by both global and local stressors that have devastated much of its living coral cover.
Katherine R. Eaton, Jan H. Landsberg, Yasunari Kiryu, Esther C. Peters, Erinn M. Muller   +4 more
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The Ecological Mechanism of Coral-Algal Phase Shifts: A Case Study of Wenchang in Hainan Province. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
This study selected the coral reef areas in the coastal waters of Wenchang, Hainan, China, which were significantly affected by human activities. Through four consecutive years of field investigations, the key driving factors and potential mechanisms of ecological phase shifts between corals and macroalgae were identified, thus providing a scientific ...
Lyu Y, Zhang Y, Li Y, Wang Y, Chen Z, Huang Y, Li T.   +6 more
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A Ship Grounding Over a Century Ago Left a Lasting Channel Among Corals. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Ship groundings damage coral ecosystems due to the physical abrasion or shattering of corals, but also lead to changes in community structure and increases in coral diseases. In northeastern Brazil, the state of Rio Grande do Norte has a notable history of shipwrecks and maritime incidents due to the combination of strong trade winds, complex currents,
DeCarlo TM, Cavole L, Castro-Falcón G, Ribau Mendes V, Longo GO, Pereira NS, Chiessi CM.   +6 more
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Light absorption and utilization by colonies of the congeneric hermatypic corals Montastraea faveolata and Montastraea cavernosa [PDF]

Limnology and Oceanography, 2000
The congeneric species Montastraea faveolata and Montastraea cavernosa are important hermatypic corals on reefs throughout the Bahamas, Caribbean, and the Florida reef tract that have overlapping bathymetric distributions. However, these congeners differ in their respective abundance at similar depths.
Michael P.Lesser Lesser, Charles Mazel, David Phinney, Charles S. Yentsch   +3 more
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Effectiveness of topical antibiotics in treating corals affected by Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease [PDF]

PeerJ, 2020
Since 2014, Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) has led to mass mortality of the majority of hard coral species on the Florida Reef Tract. Following the successful treatment of SCTLD lesions on laboratory corals using water dosed with antibiotics ...
Karen L. Neely, Kevin A. Macaulay, Emily K. Hower, Michelle A. Dobler   +3 more
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Fish predation hinders the success of coral restoration efforts using fragmented massive corals [PDF]

PeerJ, 2020
As coral reefs continue to decline globally, coral restoration practitioners have explored various approaches to return coral cover and diversity to decimated reefs.
Gammon Koval, Nicolas Rivas, Martine D’Alessandro, Dalton Hesley, Rolando Santos, Diego Lirman   +5 more
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