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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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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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Bacterial and Symbiodiniaceae communities’ variation in corals with distinct traits and geographical distribution [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Coral microbiomes play crucial roles in holobiont homeostasis and adaptation. The host’s ability to populate broad ecological niches and to cope with environmental changes seems to be related to the flexibility of the coral microbiome.
Livia Bonetti Villela, Arthur Weiss da Silva-Lima, Ana Paula Barbosa Moreira, Yuri Ricardo Andrade Aiube, Felipe de Vargas Ribeiro, Helena Dias Muller Villela, Marwan E. Majzoub, Michelle Amario, Rodrigo Leão de Moura, Torsten Thomas, Raquel Silva Peixoto, Paulo Sergio Salomon   +11 more
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Machine learning reveals distinct gene expression signatures across tissue states in stony coral tissue loss disease [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) has rapidly degraded Caribbean reefs, compounding climate-related stressors and threatening ecosystem stability.
Kelsey M. Beavers, Daniela Gutierrez-Andrade, Emily W. Van Buren, Madison A. Emery, Marilyn E. Brandt, Amy Apprill, Laura D. Mydlarz   +6 more
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Comparative Genomics of Color Morphs In the Coral Montastraea cavernosa. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2017
AbstractMontastraea cavernosa is a common coral in the Caribbean basin found in several color morphs. To investigate the causes for brown and orange morphs we undertook a genomics approach on corals collected at the same time and depth in the Bahamas.
Jarett JK, MacManes MD, Morrow KM, Pankey MS, Lesser MP.   +4 more
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Populations of the coral species Montastraea cavernosa on the Belize Barrier Reef lack vertical connectivity. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2019
AbstractLarval connectivity among and within coral reefs is important for sustaining coral metapopulations, enhancing ecosystem resilience through species and genetic diversity, and maintaining reef ecosystems’ structure and functions. This study characterized genetic structure and assessed horizontal and vertical connectivity among populations of the ...
Eckert RJ, Studivan MS, Voss JD.
europepmc   +4 more sources

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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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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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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