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Communications Biology, 2022 A new deadly coral disease, known as stony coral tissue loss disease, has modified the coral communities across the Caribbean region by disproportionately affecting key reef-building corals and reducing reef functionality.
Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip +4 more
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Eicosanoid Diversity of Stony Corals. [PDF]
Mar Drugs, 2018 Oxylipins are well-established lipid mediators in plants and animals. In mammals, arachidonic acid (AA)-derived eicosanoids control inflammation, fever, blood coagulation, pain perception and labor, and, accordingly, are used as drugs, while lipoxygenases (LOX), as well as cyclooxygenases (COX) serve as therapeutic targets for drug development. In soft
Lõhelaid H, Samel N.
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Farmerfish gardens help buffer stony corals against marine heat waves. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 With marine heat waves increasing in intensity and frequency due to climate change, it is important to understand how thermal disturbances will alter coral reef ecosystems since stony corals are highly susceptible to mortality from thermally-induced, mass bleaching events.
Honeycutt RN +3 more
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Tracking morphological development in stony corals
Abstract The shape of reef-building corals largely determines how they interact with their environment and the ecosystem services they provide. However, morphology is not fixed. As corals grow and develop from singular polyps to mature adult colonies, they experience pronounced changes in their morphology.
Fundakowski GJ +12 more
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Bidirectional sex change in mushroom stony corals [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2008 Sex change occurs when an individual changes from one functional sex to another. The direction of sex change occurs mainly from male to female (protandry) or vice versa (protogyny), but sometimes may be bidirectional (repetitive). Here, for the first time in stony corals, we report on a protandrous sex change exhibited by two mushroom corals,Fungia ...
Yossi, Loya, Kazuhiko, Sakai
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Coral affected by stony coral tissue loss disease can produce viable offspring
PeerJ, 2023 Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) has caused high mortality of at least 25 coral species across the Caribbean, with Pseudodiploria strigosa being the second most affected species in the Mexican Caribbean.
Sandra Mendoza Quiroz +5 more
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Characterization of the Microbiome of Corals with Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease along Florida’s Coral Reef [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2021 Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is an emergent and often lethal coral disease that was first reported near Miami, FL (USA) in 2014. Our objective was to determine if coral colonies showing signs of SCTLD possess a specific microbial signature across five susceptible species sampled in Florida’s Coral Reef.
Abigail S. Clark +7 more
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Stony corals (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) of Burdwood Bank and neighbouring areas, SW Atlantic Ocean
Scientia Marina, 2019 The presence of ten species of stony corals was recorded at a total of 19 out of 48 sampling stations at Burdwood Bank and neighbouring areas. Scleractinians were recorded only at three stations inside the marine protected area (MPA) Namuncurá I, while ...
Laura Schejter, Claudia S. Bremec
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Structure and Function of Stony Coral Intraskeletal Polysaccharides [PDF]
ACS Omega, 2018 Polysaccharides represent a main weight fraction of the intraskeletal organic matrix of corals, but their structure, as well as their function in the calcification process, has been poorly investigated. This communication shows by a combination of techniques (nuclear magnetic resonance, Fourier transform infrared, and monosaccharide composition) that ...
Annamaria Naggi +8 more
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Relating fish populations to coral colony size and complexity
Ecological Indicators, 2023 A goal of coral reef management is to provide habitat and nursery areas for fish populations. This requires simple and reliable methods for characterizing biological and physical reef features that contribute to fish habitat.
William S. Fisher
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