OXYGEN BALANCE IN SOME REEF CORALS

Phosphomonoesterases in Reef-Building Corals.

Acclimatization in tropical reef corals

Global climate change (GCC) is the most widespread environmental peril facing tropical coral reefs, yet the capacity of scleractinian corals to survive the challenge is not well understood. Acclimatization is a primary mechanism by which organisms match their physiology in a timely and beneficial way to a rapidly changing environment, and so it is not surprising that the question ‘can corals ac...

Seasonal reproduction in equatorial reef corals

J.R. GUEST1*, A.H. BAIRD2, B.P.L. GOH3 and L.M. CHOU4 School of Biology and Psychology, Division of Biology, King George VI Building, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE1 7RU, UK Tel. +44 (791) 374-1557; email: [email protected] Centre for Coral Reef Biodiversity, Department of Marine Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia Natural Sciences, National...

Threatened Reef Corals of the World

A substantial proportion of the world's living species, including one-third of the reef-building corals, are threatened with extinction and in pressing need of conservation action. In order to reduce biodiversity loss, it is important to consider species' contribution to evolutionary diversity along with their risk of extinction for the purpose of setting conservation priorities. Here I reconst...

Flexibility in algal endosymbioses shapes growth in reef corals.

The relation between corals and their algal endosymbionts has been a key to the success of scleractinian (stony) corals as modern reef-builders, but little is known about early stages in the establishment of the symbiosis. Here, we show that initial uptake of zooxanthellae by juvenile corals during natural infection is nonspecific (a potentially adaptive trait); the association is flexible and ...