Phylogeography of Cold Water Soft Coral Alcyonium spp. (Anthozoa, Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) Between South America and the West Antarctic Peninsula. [PDF]
Ecol EvolOur study on genetic diversity in Alcyonium species across the southern South American‐Antarctic region revealed significant genetic divergence, indicating long‐term persistence and adaptation to varied environmental conditions since their diversification approximately 41.1 million years ago, coinciding with the opening of the Drake Passage and the ...
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Corrigendum: The Biology and Evolution of Calcite and Aragonite Mineralization in Octocorallia [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Nicola Conci +4 more
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Ilmu Kelautan, 2022 Clavularia inflata was first described from Ternate Island, Indonesia in 1896 and later reported appeared from Japan and Taiwan in 1953.Clavularia (Blainville 1830) soft corals exhibit complex morphological traits that are difficult to differentiate ...
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Cytotoxic ketosteroids from the Red Sea soft coral Dendronephthya sp.
Open Chemistry, 2023 A marine specimen of the Red Sea soft coral Dendronephthya sp. was extracted with a mixture of n-hexane, diethyl ether, and methanol. One new cytotoxic steroid dendronestadione (1), five known steroids: dendronesterones A-C (2–4), dendrotriol (5), and ...
Ghandourah Mohammed A.
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Spatial and Short-Term Temporal Patterns of Octocoral Assemblages in the West Philippine Sea
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Octocorals are relatively understudied than other coral reef organisms despite their ecological and economic values. The Philippines is known to have high marine biodiversity, but information on octocorals is lacking.
Jue Alef A. Lalas +8 more
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Bioactivity of a polyhydroxy gorgostane steroid from Xenia umbellata
Open Chemistry, 2022 A C-30 steroid, 3β-,5α-,6β-,11α-,20β-pentahydroxygorgosterol was isolated from the soft coral Xenia umbellata Lamarck (Xeniidae). The chemical structure was elucidated by examining the NMR spectral data and comparison with the previously published data ...
Bawakid Nahed O., Althagbi Hanan I.
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Skimming genomes for systematics and DNA barcodes of corals. [PDF]
Ecol EvolBioinformatically pulling UCEs, exons, mitochondrial genomes, and nuclear rRNA genes from genome skimming is a viable and low‐cost option for phylogenetic studies. The mean number of UCE and exon loci extracted from the genome skimming data was 1837 ± 662 SD for octocorals and 1379 ± 476 loci for hexacorals; phylogenetic relationships were well ...
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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.
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Cold-water corals build up reef structures or coral gardens and play an important role for many organisms in the deep sea. Climate change, deep-sea mining, and bottom trawling are severely compromising these ecosystems, making it all the more important ...
Severin A. Korfhage +6 more
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A modified view on octocorals: Heteroxenia fuscescens nematocysts are diverse, featuring both an ancestral and a novel type. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Cnidarians are characterized by the presence of stinging cells containing nematocysts, a sophisticated injection system targeted mainly at prey-capture and defense.
Chen Yoffe, Tamar Lotan, Yehuda Benayhau
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