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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Survival, rarity, and extinction in tropical stony corals. [PDF]
Conserv BiolAbstract Many reef‐building tropical corals are becoming rare. We considered the meaning of rarity in corals and highlighted taxa that have reached low abundances in the last few decades. The difficulties of quantifying rarity in the marine environment arise from the sheer scale and 3‐dimensional nature of the biome and the inherent ...
Wilson B, Edmunds PJ.
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The spatial network of skeletal proteins in a stony coral [PDF]
Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 2021 Coral skeletons are materials composed of inorganic aragonitic fibres and organic molecules including proteins, sugars and lipids that are highly organized to form a solid biomaterial upon which the animals live. The skeleton contains tens of proteins, all of which are encoded in the animal genome and secreted during the biomineralization process ...
Manjula P. Mummadisetti +2 more
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Mycobacteria isolated from temperate stony corals. [PDF]
MicroPubl BiolIn marine environment, actinobacteria are widely distributed in water and sediments, and form symbiotic relationships with higher organisms. In this study, we isolated 49 actinobacterial strains from three temperate stony corals , Pocillopora damicornis , Acropora hyacinthus and Acropora muricata .
Ulanova D, Mezaki T, Kubota S.
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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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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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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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Marine Anoxia and Ocean Acidification During the End‐Permian Extinction
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 325-340., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Ying Cui +4 more
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Microbiomes of stony and soft deep-sea corals share rare core bacteria
Microbiome, 2019 Background Numerous studies have shown that bacteria form stable associations with host corals and have focused on identifying conserved “core microbiomes” of bacterial associates inferred to be serving key roles in the coral holobiont.
Christina A. Kellogg
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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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