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Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 Coral reefs are amongst the most biodiverse ecosystems on earth, and while stony corals create the foundational complexity of these ecosystems, octocorals and anemones contribute significantly to their biodiversity and function.
Rosemary K Steinberg +7 more
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Resilience of Octocoral Forests to Catastrophic Storms [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2020 AbstractAfter centuries of human-mediated disturbances, Caribbean reef communities are vastly different from those described in the 1950s. Many are functionally dominated by macroalgae, but this community state represents only one of several possibilities into which present-day coral reefs can transition.
H. R. Lasker +3 more
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The Brazilian octocoral Phyllogorgia dilatata as a source of cytotoxic compounds
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2021 The extensive marine biodiversity has proved to be a promising source of substances with biomedical potential. In this study, the cytotoxicity of the Brazilian octocoral Phyllogorgia dilatata (Gorgoniidae) was evaluated against two tumor cell lines and ...
THAYSSA S.F. FAGUNDES +11 more
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Ecological Factors Mediate Immunity and Parasitic Co-Infection in Sea Fan Octocorals
Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 The interplay among environment, demography, and host-parasite interactions is a challenging frontier. In the ocean, fundamental changes are occurring due to anthropogenic pressures, including increased disease outbreaks on coral reefs.
Allison M. Tracy +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Declines in abundance of scleractinian corals on shallow Caribbean reefs have left many reefs dominated by forests of arborescent octocorals. The ecological mechanisms favoring their persistence require exploration.
P. J. Edmunds, H. R. Lasker
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Microbiome, 2021 Background In octocorals (Cnidaria Octocorallia), the functional relationship between host health and its symbiotic consortium has yet to be determined.
T. Keller-Costa +9 more
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Oceanographic drivers of deep-sea coral species distribution and community assembly on seamounts, islands, atolls, and reefs within the Phoenix Islands Protected Area [PDF]
, 2020 © The Author(s), 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Auscavitch, S. R., Deere, M. C., Keller, A. G., Rotjan, R. D., Shank, T. M., & Cordes, E.
Auscavitch, Steven R. +5 more
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Dataset of octocoral assemblages in fore reefs in the northwestern region of Cuba
Data in Brief, 2020 This dataset accompanies ''Spatio temporal variation in octocoral assemblages along a water quality gradient in the northwestern region of Cuba'' [1]. Sampling units were quadrats of 1 m2 (each 1 x 1 m), positioned by a random-systematic design at 10 m ...
Néstor Rey-Villiers +3 more
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Cembranoids from Octocoral Lobophytum crassum (von Marenzeller, 1886) [PDF]
Marine Drugs, 2021 Two cembranoids, including a new compound, lobocrassin I (1), as well as a known analogue, lobohedleolide (2), were obtained by solvent extraction from octocoral Lobophytum crassum. This study employed a spectroscopic approach to establish the structures of these two cembranoids, and utilized single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis to determine their
Yao-Tsung Yeh +9 more
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Symbiodinium Photosynthesis in Caribbean Octocorals
PLoS ONE, 2014 Symbioses with the dinoflagellate Symbiodinium form the foundation of tropical coral reef communities. Symbiodinium photosynthesis fuels the growth of an array of marine invertebrates, including cnidarians such as scleractinian corals and octocorals (e.g., gorgonian and soft corals).
Blake D Ramsby +3 more
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