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Open AccessMonitoring of species’ genetic diversity in Europe varies greatly and overlooks potential climate change impacts
Genetic monitoring of populations currently attracts interest in the context of the Convention on Biological Diversity but needs long-term planning and investments. However, genetic diversity has been largely ...
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Open AccessShifting reef restoration focus from coral survivorship to biodiversity using Reef Carpets
To enhance the practice of farmed-coral transplantation, we conducted a trial of an approach called “Reef Carpets” (RC), which draws inspiration from the commercial turf-grass sod in land-based lawn gardening. Th...
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Open AccessHistorical navigation routes in European waters leave their footprint on the contemporary seascape genetics of a colonial urochordate
Humans have intensively sailed the Mediterranean and European Atlantic waters throughout history, from the upper Paleolithic until today and centuries of human seafaring have established complex coastal and cr...
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Open AccessThe novel Orshina Rhythm in a colonial urochordate signifies the display of recurrent aging/rejuvenation sequels
When it comes to aging, some colonial invertebrates present disparate patterns from the customary aging phenomenon in unitary organisms, where a single senescence phenomenon along ontogeny culminates in their ...
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Open AccessFission in a colonial marine invertebrate signifies unique life history strategies rather than being a demographic trait
Each of the few known life-history strategies (e.g., r/K and parity [semelparity and iteroparity]), is a composite stratagem, signified by co-evolved sets of trade-offs with stochastically distributed variatio...
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Open AccessFrontloading of stress response genes enhances robustness to environmental change in chimeric corals
Chimeras are genetically mixed entities resulting from the fusion of two or more conspecifics. This phenomenon is widely distributed in nature and documented in a variety of animal and plant phyla. In corals, ...
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Open AccessPublisher Correction: Spatial distribution of conspecific genotypes within chimeras of the branching coral Stylophora pistillata
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Open AccessSpatial distribution of conspecific genotypes within chimeras of the branching coral Stylophora pistillata
Chimerism is a coalescence of conspecific genotypes. Although common in nature, fundamental knowledge, such as the spatial distribution of the genotypes within chimeras, is lacking. Hence, we investigated the ...
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Corrections to: Apparent recruitment failure for the vast majority of coral species at Eilat, Red Sea
A correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-021-02121-x
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Open AccessGap analysis of DNA barcoding in ERMS reference libraries for ascidians and cnidarians
All-inclusive DNA-barcoding libraries in the storage and analysis platform of the BOLD (Barcode of Life Data) system are essential for the study of the marine biodiversity and are pertinent for regulatory purp...
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Open AccessCircatrigintan instead of lunar periodicity of larval release in a brooding coral species
Larval release by brooding corals is often assumed to display lunar periodicity. Here, we show that larval release of individual Stylophora pistillata colonies does not comply with the assumed tight entrainment b...
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Erratum to: In vitro cultures of ectodermal monolayers from the model sea anemone Nematostella vectensis
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Open AccessVenturing in coral larval chimerism: a compact functional domain with fostered genotypic diversity
The globally distributed coral species Pocillopora damicornis is known to release either sexual or asexual derived planula-larvae in various reef locations. Using microsatellite loci as markers, we documented the...
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Open AccessCell signaling and transcription factor genes expressed during whole body regeneration in a colonial chordate
The restoration of adults from fragments of blood vessels in botryllid ascidians (termed whole body regeneration [WBR]) represents an inimitable event in the chordates, which is poorly understood on the mechan...
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Open AccessCoral kin aggregations exhibit mixed allogeneic reactions and enhanced fitness during early ontogeny
Aggregated settlement of kin larvae in sessile marine invertebrates may result in a complex array of compatible and incompatible allogeneic responses within each assemblage. Each such aggregate can, therefore,...
