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Cytotoxic Effects of Sarcophyton sp. Soft Corals—Is There a Correlation to Their NMR Fingerprints?

Marine Drugs, 2017
Sarcophyton sp. soft corals are rich in cembranoid diterpenes, which represent the main chemical defense of corals against their natural predators in addition to their myriad biological effects in humans. Quantitative NMR (qNMR) was applied for assessing
Mohamed A. Farag, Mostafa I. Fekry, Montasser A. Al-Hammady, Mohamed N. Khalil, Hesham R. El-Seedi, Achim Meyer, Andrea Porzel, Hildegard Westphal, Ludger A. Wessjohann   +8 more
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Adaptive Spaces and Rural Futures: Climate Change, Agrarian Dynamics, and Knowledge Politics in Southeast Asian Socioecological Transformations

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary rural change in Southeast Asia is shaped by complex, intersecting forces that defy simplistic narratives. Researchers must therefore develop new ways to grasp nuanced, non‐linear, and locally specific processes to understand how transformational shifts may occur (or not) in the region.
John F. McCarthy, Jean‐Christophe Castella, Kelly Dorkenoo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Partnering for Health Workforce Development: A Case Study of Australian Volunteers International and the Solomon Islands Medical Internship Training Programme

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the Solomon Islands Graduate Intern Supervision and Support Project (SIGISSP) and its successor, the Solomon Islands Medical Partnership for Learning, Education and Research (SIMPLER), a decade‐long partnership between the Solomon Islands Ministry of Health and Medical Services, the National Referral Hospital and Australian
Sharon McLennan
wiley   +1 more source

Chemical versus structural defense against fish predation in two dominant soft coral species (Xeniidae) in the Red Sea

Aquatic Biology, 2015
Soft corals of the family Xeniidae are particularly abundant in Red Sea coral reefs. Their success may be partly due to a strong defense mechanism against fish predation.
BX Hoang, Y Sawall, A Al-Sofyani, M Wahl
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Histology of the Soft Parts of Astraeid Corals.

Journal of Cell Science, 1923
ABSTRACT The following account of the histology of the soft parts of the Astraeidae is supplementary to the description given in the Introduction to my paper on ‘A Revision of the Recent Colonial Astraeidae possessing Distinct Corallites’ (25, pp. 1-32).
openaire   +2 more sources

Advancing conservation breeding programs for marine invertebrates

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the face of ecosystem change and biodiversity loss caused by climate change and other stressors, conservation breeding, or captive breeding, with the aim of reintroduction for wild population recovery, is an emerging tool for preventing species’ extinction and rehabilitating ecosystems.
Elora H. López‐Nandam, Bart Shepherd, Kylie Lev, Rebecca Albright   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quantifying the δ¹⁵N trophic offset in a cold-water scleractinian coral (CWC): implications for the CWC diet and coral δ¹⁵N as a marine N cycle proxy [PDF]

Biogeosciences
The nitrogen (N) isotope composition (δ15N) of cold-water corals is a promising proxy for reconstructing past ocean N cycling, as a strong correlation was found between the δ15N of the organic nitrogen preserved in coral skeletons and the δ15N of ...
J. L. Mottram, A. M. Gothmann, M. G. Prokopenko, A. Cordova, V. Rollinson, K. Dobkowski, J. Granger   +6 more
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Evaluating the protection status and exposure to warming of Caribbean reefs with high functional potential

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the past decades, climate change has emerged as a major threat to global biodiversity, negatively affecting the integrity and functioning of ecosystems and the benefits they provide to people. To mitigate these impacts, it is essential to identify climate refugia that support the persistence of the structure and function of reef ...
Sara M. Melo‐Merino, Andrés Lira‐Noriega, Enrique Martínez‐Meyer, Héctor Reyes‐Bonilla, Lorenzo Álvarez‐Filip   +4 more
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Influence of sipunculan (peanut worm) activity on orifice formation in scleractinian Heterocyathus for adaptation to soft substrates

Scientific Reports
Mutualism profoundly affects the morphology and ecological evolution of both hosts and symbionts involved. Heterocyathus is a solitary scleractinian coral that lives on soft substrata, and sipunculan worms live symbiotically in the tube-like cavities ...
Yuki Tokuda, Shuya Kawakita, Asuka Sentoku, Yoichi Ezaki, Naoki Tanaka, Shotaro Nagasawa, Kazumitsu Nakaguchi, Shuhei Yamaguchi, Yusuke Kondo, Susumu Ohtsuka   +9 more
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Retractile Polyps of Soft Coral Gersemia rubiformis (Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae) Offer Protection to Developing Basket Stars (Gorgonocephalus sp.)

Diversity
Cold-water soft corals are a known habitat for juvenile basket stars (Gorgonocephalus sp.), but the role of this relationship in the earliest life stages of basket stars warrants further investigation.
Kathryn Murray, Bárbara de Moura Neves, Emmeline Broad, Vonda E. Hayes   +3 more
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