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...
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 ...
coral populations from hot and/or thermally variable reefs have suffered from coral bleaching in recent years26,27,28, highlighting the need to understand whether adaptation to stressfully high temperatures may constrain coral acclimatization capacity. In particular, understanding if these heat-resistant ...
by disruptive selection and physiological adaptation to only one or very few respective host species without much morphological differentiation. Leptoconchus species that occur with several host coral species are not known. This implies that previous morphological descriptions may refer to more than a ...
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 ...
The hermit crab Paguritta harmsi does not live in mobile shells, but occupies the calcareous tubes of the coral epibiont Spirobranchus giganteus (Polychaeta). Feathered (second) antennae are an unique adaptation to this sessile mode of l... H Schuhmacher - 《Oecologia》 被引量: 41发表: 197...
Characteristics of pocilloporins; Information on the protein drawn from Dicosoma coral; Description of Rtms5, the pocilloporin that gives coral... - 《Australasian Science》 被引量: 0发表: 2003年 Physiological Adaptation to Symbiosis in Cnidarians Up to the nineteenth century, cnidarians, among ...
Coral growth is an important component of reef health and resilience. However, few studies have investigated temporal and/or spatial variation in growth of branching corals, which are important contributors to the structure and function of reef habitats.
The interaction between local, anthropogenic stressors, and larger scale regional/global stressors, is often used to explain the current poor condition of many corals reefs. This form of cumulative pressure is clearly manifested by situations where dredg