Taken together, the results may provide useful information about the cellular mechanisms involved in the corals adaptation to extreme conditions.Davide SevesoSimone MontanoDavide MaggioniFrancesca PedrettiIvan OrlandiPaolo GalliMarina VaiDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences (DISAT) University of ...
While the effects of OA are ubiquitous, they are of particular concern for calcifying organisms such as scleractinian corals, which use carbonate ions to build their skeleton (Hofmann et al.2010). This potential for OA to reduce calcification in corals has identified coral reefs as one of the ...
This project is aimed at applying deep neural network analysis, based on thousands of underwater images, to the automatic recognition of some common species among the 100 species reported to be found in the Eilat coral reefs. This is a challenging task, since even in the same colony, corals...
Coral reefs are facing intensifying anthropogenic impacts1,2,3resulting in reef-building coral populations and live coral cover declining in many reef regions4,5,6. More than 60 percent of the world’s coral reefs are degraded or seriously threatened with loss in coming decades2,7. Human threat...
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Pocilloporins, a diverse group of non-fluorescent green fluorescent protein (GFP) homologs found across Cnidaria and beyond, are one such adaptation within the tissues of heavily pigmented scleractinian corals. Chemically unique amongst pigments, GFP-like pigments exist as pure protein chromophores and...
Apicomplexans are the causative agents of major human diseases such as malaria and toxoplasmosis. A novel group of apicomplexans, recently named corallicolids, have been detected in corals inhabiting tropical shallow reefs. These apicomplexans may repres
Adaptation efforts Her results so far demonstrate that both symbiotic partners are important. For example, in a common species of brain coral, coral hosts from the Gulf are, on average, twice as heat tolerant as those from elsewhere. Similarly, theSymbiodiniumalgae within these Gulf corals are ...
Such resilience is likely due to a combination of host and symbiont-derived factors 11, 12. Understanding the mechanisms that underpin resilience will help us assess the acclimatization and adaptation potential of reef-building corals in the face of continued and intensifying anthropogenic perturbation....
Furthermore, it is increasingly recog- nized that acclimatization through phenotypic plasticity may buffer populations against rapid environmental change, allowing genetic adaptation to catch up over the longer term4. The fate of tropical coral reefs is of particular concern due to their high social...