Testing of how and why the Terpios hoshinota sponge kills stony corals [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 An encrusting sponge, Terpios hoshinota, has the potential to infect all species of stony corals in shallow reefs and killing them. It caused a decline in coral coverage in two south-eastern islands of Taiwan.
Siang-Tai Syue +2 more
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Decline in coral cover and flattening of the reefs around Mauritius (1998–2010) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Coral reefs are degrading through the impacts of multiple anthropogenic stressors. How are coral reef communities going to change and how to protect them for future generations are important conservation questions.
Jennifer A. Elliott +4 more
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Cryopreservation and revival of Hawaiian stony corals using isochoric vitrification [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2023 Corals are under siege by both local and global threats, creating a worldwide reef crisis. Cryopreservation is an important intervention measure and a vital component of the modern coral conservation toolkit, but preservation techniques are currently ...
Matthew J. Powell-Palm +9 more
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Evolutionary Analysis of Cnidaria Small Cysteine-Rich Proteins (SCRiPs), an Enigmatic Neurotoxin Family from Stony Corals and Sea Anemones (Anthozoa: Hexacorallia) [PDF]
ToxinsCnidarians (corals, sea anemones, and jellyfish) produce toxins that play central roles in key ecological processes, including predation, defense, and competition, being the oldest extant venomous animal lineage.
Ricardo Alexandre Barroso +3 more
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Comparative embryology of eleven species of stony corals (Scleractinia). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 A comprehensive understanding of coral reproduction and development is needed because corals are threatened in many ways by human activity. Major threats include the loss of their photosynthetic symbionts (Symbiodinium) caused by rising temperatures ...
Nami Okubo +7 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Black corals, ecologically important cnidarians found from shallow to deep ocean depths, form a strong yet flexible skeleton of sclerotized chitin and other biomolecules including proteins.
Jeana L. Drake, Tali Mass, Tali Mass
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An Informational Guide to Common Stony Corals of Florida
EDIS, 2018 The following information is meant to be a guide to Scleractinian (stony) corals of Florida. All corals presented in this paper are in a protected status under Florida’s Coral Reef Protection Act and several of these species are federally protected ...
Joseph Henry +3 more
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Contact-free impacts of sessile reef organisms on stony coral productivity
Communications Earth & Environment, 2023 Coral reefs are biodiversity and productivity hotspots where space limitation makes interactions between organisms inevitable. Biodiversity loss alters these interactions, however downstream effects on the productivity of individual species remain ...
Kara E. Engelhardt +8 more
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Metabolomics of Healthy and Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Affected Montastraea cavernosa Corals
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Stony coral tissue loss disease, first observed in Florida in 2014, has now spread along the entire Florida Reef Tract and on reefs in many Caribbean countries.
Jessica M. Deutsch +9 more
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Oceanographic drivers of deep-sea coral species distribution and community assembly on seamounts, islands, atolls, and reefs within the Phoenix Islands Protected Area [PDF]
, 2020 © The Author(s), 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Auscavitch, S. R., Deere, M. C., Keller, A. G., Rotjan, R. D., Shank, T. M., & Cordes, E.
Auscavitch, Steven R. +5 more
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