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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, Elizabeth M. Whitcher, Tessa Code, Clayton Pollock, Ian Lundgren, Zandy Hillis-Starr, Erinn M. Muller   +6 more
doaj   +11 more sources

Seasonal Proteome Variations in Orbicella faveolata Reveal Molecular Thermal Stress Adaptations [PDF]

Proteomes
Although 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, Nikolaos V. Schizas, Ernesto F. Weil, Pawel Ciborowski, Nawal M. Boukli   +4 more
doaj   +4 more sources

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, Sarah W. Davies, Mikhail V. Matz, Mónica Medina   +3 more
doaj   +6 more sources

Acute toxicity of arsenate and arsenite in two scleractinian coral species: Acropora cervicornis and Orbicella faveolata [PDF]

Toxicology Reports
Inorganic 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, Dimitrios G. Giarikos, Amy C. Hirons, Carys L. Mitchelmore, D. Abigail Renegar   +4 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Sediment source and dose influence the larval performance of the threatened coral Orbicella faveolata. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2023
The effects of turbidity and sedimentation stress on early life stages of corals are poorly understood, particularly in Atlantic species. Dredging operations, beach nourishment, and other coastal construction activities can increase sedimentation and ...
Xaymara M Serrano, Stephanie M Rosales, Margaret W Miller, Ana M Palacio-Castro, Olivia M Williamson, Andrea Gomez, Andrew C Baker   +6 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Development of an integrated genomic map for a threatened Caribbean coral ( Orbicella faveolata ) [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution, 2017
ABSTRACT Genomic methods are powerful tools for studying evolutionary responses to selection, but the application of these tools in non-model systems threatened by climate change has been limited by the availability of genomic resources in those systems. High-throughput DNA sequencing has enabled development of genome
Snelling, Jacob, Dziedzic, Katherine, Guermond, Sarah, Meyer, Eli   +3 more
europepmc   +10 more sources

Sclerochronological characteristics of Orbicella faveolata in Cayo Arenas, a remote coral reef from the Gulf of Mexico [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2023
During coral calcification in massive scleractinian corals, a double annual banding of different densities (high- and low-density) is formed in their skeletons, which can provide a retrospective record of growth and the influence of environmental conditions on the coral’s lifespan. Evidence indicates that during the last decades, the reduction in coral
D. Wendoline Sánchez-Pelcastre, J. J. Adolfo Tortolero-Langarica, Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip, Israel Cruz-Ortega, Juan P. Carricart-Ganivet   +4 more
doaj   +5 more sources

RNA-Seq of the Caribbean reef-building coral Orbicella faveolata (Scleractinia-Merulinidae) under bleaching and disease stress expands models of coral innate immunity [PDF]

PeerJ, 2016
Climate change-driven coral disease outbreaks have led to widespread declines in coral populations. Early work on coral genomics established that corals have a complex innate immune system, and whole-transcriptome gene expression studies have revealed ...
David A. Anderson, Marcus E. Walz, Ernesto Weil, Peter Tonellato, Matthew C. Smith   +4 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Revealing the status of Orbicella: Main reef-builder of Morrocoy National Park and Cuare Wildlife Refuge, Venezuela, Southern Caribbean. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Reef-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, Ana Teresa Herrera-Reveles, Estrella Villamizar, Francoise Cabada-Blanco, Jeannette Pérez-Benítez, Hazael Boadas, José G Rodríguez Quintal, Carlos Pereira, Samuel Narciso, Freddy A Bustillos   +9 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Differentiation of the bacterial communities associated with Orbicella faveolata across different growth conditions and life-cycle stages [PDF]

PLOS One
The coral microbiome can strongly influence coral health, development, and resilience. While larval settlement is fundamental for coral restoration efforts using assisted larval propagation, post-settlement survival remains a major challenge. The study of lab-bred Orbicella faveolata settlers
Amanda Pérez-Trejo, Ma. Leopoldina Aguirre-Macedo, Anastazia T. Banaszak, José Q. García-Maldonado   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources