we used reef-building corals as model organisms. Indeed, these animals are particularly suited here due to their ectothermic metabolism, which makes them more plastic to environmental factors, including seawater
Sequences were classified into nine phyla, 18 classes and 39 orders of Bacteria, yet 6.7% of sequences were unclassifi- able at the phylum level and only an average of 33.2% of sequences per sample reached the order The ISME Journal Bacterial shifts in white plague-affected corals A Ca...
Consumer-mediated indirect effects at the community level are difficult to demonstrate empirically. Here, we show an explicit indirect effect of overfishing on competition between sponges and reef-building corals from surveys of 69 sites across the Caribbean. Leveraging the large-scale, long-term remov...
myriaster comprised repetitive elements. A relatively large number of the discovered repetitive elements could not be annotated. Taking into account only annotated repetitive elements, the most common were classified as Satellite DNA which were more abundant than Class I-LINE, Class I—Penelope, and ...
This result emphasizes that reef-building calcified microbes persisted in the Mid–Late Ordovician (Liu et al., 2020), when various skeletal reef-builders such as tabulate and rugose corals, stromatoporoids, bryozoans, and other organisms began to form reefs during the peak of the GOBE (Lee ...
Ldevantier@aol.com Received: 5 May 2017; Accepted: 27 June 2017; Published: 29 June 2017 Abstract: Scleractinian corals, the main framework builders of coral reefs, are in serious global decline, although there remains significant uncertainty as to the consequences for individual species and parti...