Variable Growth Across Species and Life Stages in Caribbean Reef Octocorals
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 Growth rates often measured as linear extension rates can serve as a proxy for organismal performance across environments, yet few estimates of these growth rates exist, and fewer are reported from multi-year monitoring. We studied the effect of species,
CARLOS Prada, Prada CARLOS
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Does elevatedpCO2affect reef octocorals?
Ecology and Evolution, 2013 Increasing anthropogenic pCO2 alters seawater chemistry, with potentially severe consequences for coral reef growth and health. Octocorals are the second most important faunistic component in many reefs, often occupying 50% or more of the available ...
Maoz Fine, Yasmin Gabay
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Efficacy of the 28S rDNA barcode in differentiating Caribbean octocorals [PDF]
Biodiversity Data JournalThe ecological landscape of Caribbean reefs is rapidly changing as octocorals fill the void left by declining scleractinian populations. Effective molecular barcodes are necessary to accurately identify these octocorals and monitor this shifting ...
Sloan Senofsky +3 more
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Octocoral dynamics over a decade on Florida’s coral reef [PDF]
Scientific ReportsIn recent decades, studies have documented increased octocoral cover and density on western Atlantic reefs, suggesting their potential to thrive in areas once dominated by scleractinians.
Ronen Liberman +6 more
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Insights into the occurrence of phylosymbiosis and co-phylogeny in the holobionts of octocorals from the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea [PDF]
Animal MicrobiomeBackground Corals are the foundational species of coral reefs and coralligenous ecosystems. Their success has been linked to symbioses with microorganisms, and a coral host and its symbionts are therefore considered a single entity, called the holobiont.
C. Prioux +7 more
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Short-term growth of octocorals Swiftia exserta and Muricea pendula in a mesocosm
Frontiers in Marine ScienceTo optimize fragmentation approaches for restoration applications, this study assessed fragmentation size influences on health and growth rates of mesophotic octocorals.
Peter Etnoyer
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Nuclear eDNA metabarcoding primers for anthozoan coral biodiversity assessment [PDF]
PeerJThe distributions of anthozoan corals are undercharacterized due to their wide bathymetric ranges, occurrences in remote locales, and difficulties of identification from morphology alone.
Luke McCartin +7 more
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Contribution of metabolomics to the taxonomy and systematics of octocorals from the Tropical Eastern Pacific [PDF]
PeerJOctocorals are sessile invertebrates that play a key role in marine habitats, with significant diversity in the Tropical Eastern Pacific, especially in Ecuador’s shallow waters.
Karla B. Jaramillo +4 more
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Biodiversity monitoring in bamboo coral assemblages in the North Aegean Sea, eastern Mediterranean Basin [PDF]
Biodiversity Data JournalDeep-sea bamboo coral assemblages are often undescribed in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Their structural complexity provides essential habitats for many species and promotes high biodiversity that is poorly known. In this study, we examined the effects
Chrysoula Gubili +8 more
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The Mitogenome of the Subarctic Octocoral Alcyonium digitatum Reveals a Putative tRNAPro Gene Nested within MutS [PDF]
Current Issues in Molecular BiologyWe sequenced and analyzed the complete mitogenome of a Norwegian isolate of the octocoral Alcyonium digitatum using the Ion Torrent sequencing technology.
Alisa Heuchel +4 more
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