Coral health depends on a fragile partnership between the coral hosts and the endosymbiotic dinoflagellate symbionts. Sequence-level omics techniques ......
Symbiodiniaceae is a diverse group of dinoflagellates that form symbioses with marine invertebrates, provisioning energy and nutrients for their hosts......
Benthic cnidarians are suspension feeders that ingest items ranging from particulate organic matter to macrozooplankton. Additionally, many species re......
In an eastern-Pacific coral assemblage at Devil's Crown, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, two coral species, Psammocora stellata and Cycloseris (Diaseris) ......
Increasing temperatures on a global scale and locally deteriorating water quality affect coral distribution and health. Mechanisms that convey environ......
The 2-7-year periodicities recorded in fossil coral records have been widely used to identify paleo-El Nio events. However, the reliability of this ap......
This study tested the interactive effects of increased seawater temperature and CO2 partial pressure (pCO(2)) on the photochemistry, bleaching, and ea......
An outbreak of a small sessile sea cucumber, Ocnus sanya, occurred on the degraded Luhuitou coral reef in Sanya Bay, Hainan, China. This study explore......
In light of recent declines in scleractinian communities worldwide, research on the genetic structure of and connectivity among coral populations has ......
Nutrients' concentration, phytoplankton biomass, and primary productivity were investigated in six coral atolls in the central South China Sea during ......
Quorum sensing is an integral part of bacterial communication and interaction, but has not been well characterized in coral mucus microbiota. In this ......
Although it is well established that different coral species have different susceptibilities to thermal stress, the reasons behind this variation are ......
In most coral species, the critical association with a subset of genetically diverse algal endosymbionts, Symbiodinium, is re-established anew each ge......
