Low regeneration of lesions produced by coring in Orbicella faveolata [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 The extraction of tissue-skeleton cores from coral colonies is a common procedure to study diverse aspects of their biology, water quality or to obtain environmental proxies.
Rosa E. Rodríguez-Martínez +2 more
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Testing methods to mitigate Caribbean yellow-band disease on Orbicella faveolata [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Outbreaks of coral diseases continue to reduce global coral populations. In the Caribbean, yellow band is a severe and wide-spread disease that commonly affects corals of the Orbicella spp.
Carly J. Randall +6 more
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Seasonal Proteome Variations in Orbicella faveolata Reveal Molecular Thermal Stress Adaptations [PDF]
ProteomesAlthough seasonal water temperatures typically fluctuate by less than 4 °C across most tropical reefs, sustained heat stress with an increase of even 1 °C can alter and destabilize metabolic and physiological coral functions, leading to losses of coral ...
Martha Ricaurte +4 more
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Acute toxicity of arsenate and arsenite in two scleractinian coral species: Acropora cervicornis and Orbicella faveolata [PDF]
Toxicology ReportsInorganic arsenic, specifically arsenate [As(V)] and arsenite [As(III)], disrupts physiological and biochemical processes in marine organisms, yet their specific impacts on coral reef species remain largely unstudied.
Cailey E. Dorman +4 more
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Evaluating the effect of amoxicillin treatment on the microbiome of Orbicella faveolata with Caribbean yellow band disease [PDF]
Applied and Environmental MicrobiologyHost microbiomes play a key role in coral disease dynamics; thus, it is essential to characterize microbial communities of diseased tissues and identify how they are altered by potential treatments, especially as coral reef populations continue to ...
Erinn Müller +2 more
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Low pH reduces the virulence of black band disease on Orbicella faveolata [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Black band is a deadly coral disease found worldwide, which may become more virulent as oceanic conditions continue to change. To determine the effects of climate change and ocean acidification on black band disease virulence, Orbicella faveolata corals ...
Erinn Müller +2 more
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Quantifying cryptic Symbiodinium diversity within Orbicella faveolata and Orbicella franksi at the Flower Garden Banks, Gulf of Mexico [PDF]
PeerJ, 2014 The genetic composition of the resident Symbiodinium endosymbionts can strongly modulate the physiological performance of reef-building corals. Here, we used quantitative metabarcoding to investigate Symbiodinium genetic diversity in two species of ...
Elizabeth A. Green +3 more
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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.
Esther Peters +2 more
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Revealing the status of Orbicella: Main reef-builder of Morrocoy National Park and Cuare Wildlife Refuge, Venezuela, Southern Caribbean. [PDF]
PLoS ONEReef-building corals are the main basis of coral reef ecosystems, and the Orbicella genus is currently the most important in the Caribbean region. Although Orbicella species have been extensively studied, gaps in some southern Caribbean areas still ...
Anaurora Yranzo-Duque +9 more
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Coral metabolomic diversity is associated with restoration success [PDF]
Scientific ReportsAs coral cover declines worldwide, coral propagation has become a necessary strategy to restore coral reefs. However, predation can negatively affect the survival of coral microfragments used in restoration.
Catherine Raker +3 more
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