A Network Approach to White Band Disease Challenged Staghorn Coral Acropora cervicornis microRNAs and Their Targets [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionCoral reefs are increasingly threatened by disease outbreaks, yet little is known about the genetic mechanisms underlying disease resistance. Since the 1970s, White Band Disease (WBD) has decimated the Caribbean staghorn coral Acropora cervicornis ...
Brecia A. Despard +3 more
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Population Genomics for Coral Reef Restoration—A Case Study of Staghorn Corals in Micronesia [PDF]
Evolutionary ApplicationsStaghorn Acropora corals are ecological keystone species in shallow lagoons and back reef habitats throughout the tropics. Their widespread decline coupled with their amenability for asexual propagation propelled them to the forefront of global coral ...
Dareon Rios +6 more
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Natural disease resistance in threatened staghorn corals. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2008 Disease epidemics have caused extensive damage to tropical coral reefs and to the reef-building corals themselves, yet nothing is known about the abilities of the coral host to resist disease infection.
Steven V Vollmer, David I Kline
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Growth-predation risk tradeoffs constrain the local distribution of a thicket-forming Staghorn coral to marginal reef habitats [PDF]
Scientific ReportsOn tropical reefs, environmental conditions and biological interactions are fundamental drivers of the spatial distribution of corals, which in turn influences community attributes and ecosystem rate processes.
Mark C. Ladd +6 more
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Assessing and genotyping threatened staghorn coral Acropora cervicornis nurseries during restoration in southeast Dominican Republic [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Acropora cervicornis is a structurally and functionally important Caribbean coral species. Since the 1980s, it has suffered drastic population losses with no signs of recovery and has been classified as a critically endangered species.
Johanna Calle-Triviño +6 more
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Genome-Wide DNA Methylation Analysis Reveals a Conserved Epigenetic Response to Seasonal Environmental Variation in the Staghorn Coral Acropora cervicornis [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 Epigenetic modifications such as DNA methylation have been shown to participate in plastic responses to environmental change in a wide range of organisms, including scleractinian corals.
Javier A. Rodríguez-Casariego +10 more
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Ecology and EvolutionCoral reefs around the world are increasingly threatened by rising ocean temperatures, leading to more frequent mass bleaching events. However, some corals, typically found in more thermally variable environments, have demonstrated resilience to thermal ...
Allyson DeMerlis +18 more
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Native Herbivores Improve Sexual Propagation of Threatened Staghorn Coral Acropora cervicornis [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 Staghorn coral Acropora cervicornis was once spatially dominant on Caribbean reefs but is now threatened throughout its range. In recent years, advancements in ex situ sexual propagation of Caribbean corals have increased the viability of this management
Joseph A. Henry +3 more
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DiversityCoral restoration is essential for recovering depleted populations and reef ecological functions. However, its effect on enhancing fish assemblages remains understudied.
Edwin A. Hernández-Delgado +3 more
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Identification of putative coral pathogens in endangered Caribbean staghorn coral using machine learning [PDF]
Environmental Microbiology, Volume 26, Issue 9, September 2024.Using a combination of extensive field sampling, highly accurate ensemble machine learning and tank‐based transmission experiments, we employ 16S rRNA gene surveys to identify two candidate pathogens likely causing white band disease in critically endangered staghorn and elkhorn corals.
Jason D. Selwyn +4 more
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