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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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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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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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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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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The Skeleton and Biomineralization Mechanism as Part of the Innate Immune System of Stony Corals [PDF]
Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 Shani Levy, Tali Mass, Mass Tali
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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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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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Widespread occurrence and diverse origins of polintoviruses influence lineage-specific genome dynamics in stony corals [PDF]
Virus EvolutionMohammad Moniruzzaman +1 more
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