52 Result(s)

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Clonal structure and variable fertilization success in Florida Keys broadcast-spawning corals

Keystone reef-building corals in the Caribbean are predominantly self-incompatible broadcast spawners and a majority are threatened due to both acute adult mortality and poor recruitment. As population densiti...

M. W. Miller, I. B. Baums, R. E. Pausch, A. J. Bright, C. M. Cameron… in Coral Reefs (2018)

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Genet-specific spawning patterns in Acropora palmata

The broadcast spawning elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata, requires outcrossing among different genets for effective fertilization. Hence, a low density of genets in parts of its range emphasizes the need for precis...

M. W. Miller, D. E. Williams, J. Fisch in Coral Reefs (2016)

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SKA2 methylation predicts reduced cortical thickness in prefrontal cortex

N Sadeh, J M Spielberg, M W Logue, E J Wolf, A K Smith, J Lusk… in Molecular Psychiatry (2016)

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SKA2 methylation is associated with decreased prefrontal cortical thickness and greater PTSD severity among trauma-exposed veterans

Methylation of the SKA2 (spindle and kinetochore-associated complex subunit 2) gene has recently been identified as a promising biomarker of suicide risk. Based on this finding, we examined associations between S...

N Sadeh, J M Spielberg, M W Logue, E J Wolf, A K Smith, J Lusk… in Molecular Psychiatry (2016)

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Climate Change Projected Effects on Coastal Foundation Communities of the Greater Everglades Using a 2060 Scenario: Need for a New Management Paradigm

Rising sea levels and temperature will be dominant drivers of coastal Everglades’ foundation communities (i.e., mangrove forests, seagrass/macroalgae, and coral reefs) by 2060 based on a climate change scenari...

M. S. Koch, C. Coronado, M. W. Miller, D. T. Rudnick… in Environmental Management (2015)

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Negative indirect effects of neighbors on imperiled scleractinian corals

Predation pressure on an individual may be influenced by spatial associations with other organisms. In the case of rare and imperiled species, such indirect interactions may affect the persistence and recovery...

Lyza Johnston, M. W. Miller in Coral Reefs (2014)

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Traumatic stress, oxidative stress and post-traumatic stress disorder: neurodegeneration and the accelerated-aging hypothesis

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with elevated risk for a variety of age-related diseases and neurodegeneration. In this paper, we review evidence relevant to the hypothesis that chronic PTS...

M W Miller, N Sadeh in Molecular Psychiatry (2014)

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Cryptic changes in the genetic structure of a highly clonal coral population and the relationship with ecological performance

Elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata, relies heavily on clonal propagation and often displays low genotypic (clonal) diversity. Populations in the Florida Keys experienced rapid declines in tissue cover between 2004 a...

Dana E. Williams, M. W. Miller, I. B. Baums in Coral Reefs (2014)

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A genome-wide association study of post-traumatic stress disorder identifies the retinoid-related orphan receptor alpha (RORA) gene as a significant risk locus

We describe the results of the first genome-wide association study (GWAS) of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) performed using trauma-exposed white non-Hispanic participants from a cohort of veterans and t...

M W Logue, C Baldwin, G Guffanti, E Melista, E J Wolf, A F Reardon… in Molecular Psychiatry (2013)

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Attributing mortality among drivers of population decline in Acropora palmata in the Florida Keys (USA)

Acropora palmata populations have experienced steep declines over the past 30 years. Although numerous culprits are recognized, their relative contributions to the decline are poorly quantified, ...

D. E. Williams, M. W. Miller in Coral Reefs (2012)

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Coral larvae settle at a higher frequency on red surfaces

Although chemical cues serve as the primary determinants of larval settlement and metamorphosis, light is also known to influence the behavior and the settlement of coral planulae. For example, Porites astreoides

B. Mason, M. Beard, M. W. Miller in Coral Reefs (2011)

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Host population genetic structure and zooxanthellae diversity of two reef-building coral species along the Florida Reef Tract and wider Caribbean

In preparation for a large-scale coral restoration project, we surveyed host population genetic structure and symbiont diversity of two reef-building corals in four reef zones along the Florida reef tract (FRT...

I. B. Baums, M. E. Johnson, M. K. Devlin-Durante, M. W. Miller in Coral Reefs (2010)

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Assessment of current rates of Diadema antillarum larval settlement

The generally slow and incomplete recovery of the long-spined sea urchin, Diadema antillarum, from the 1983–84 Caribbean-wide die-off, particularly in the Florida Keys, USA, raises the question of factors limitin...

M. W. Miller, K. L. Kramer, S. M. Williams, L. Johnston, A. M. Szmant in Coral Reefs (2009)

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Recruitment failure in Florida Keys Acropora palmata, a threatened Caribbean coral

Recovery of Acropora palmata from its currently imperiled status depends on recruitment, a process which is poorly documented in existing Caribbean coral population studies. A. palmata is thought to be well adapt...

D. E. Williams, M. W. Miller, K. L. Kramer in Coral Reefs (2008)

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Coral disease outbreak at Navassa, a remote Caribbean island

In November 2004, a high prevalence of coral disease was observed at several sites around Navassa, an uninhabited Caribbean island between Haiti and Jamaica. At least fifteen mounding and foliaceous scleractin...

M. W. Miller, D. E. Williams in Coral Reefs (2007)

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Biomechanics of the Porcine Basilar Artery in Hypertension

Hypertension is a significant risk factor for diverse cerebrovascular diseases ranging from stroke to arteriovenous malformations and saccular aneurysms. Our increasing understanding of vascular mechanobiology...

J.-J. Hu, T. W. Fossum, M. W. Miller, H. Xu, J.-C. Liu… in Annals of Biomedical Engineering (2007)

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Chronic Wasting Disease of Cervids

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) has recently emerged in North America as an important prion disease of captive and free-ranging cervids (species in the deer family). CWD is the only recognized transmissible spon...

M. W. Miller, E. S. Williams in Mad Cow Disease and Related Spongiform Encephalopathies (2004)

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Ecology of a corallivorous gastropod, Coralliophila abbreviata, on two scleractinian hosts. II. Feeding, respiration and growth

Coralliophila abbreviata is a corallivorous gastropod that has been observed to cause large feeding scars on reef-building corals on Floridian and Caribbean reefs...

I. B. Baums, M. W. Miller, A. M. Szmant in Marine Biology (2003)

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Corallivorous snail removal: evaluation of impact on Acropora palmata

With the continuing decline of Acropora palmata throughout the Caribbean region, impacts of the gastropod corallivore, Coralliophila abbreviata, are becoming more noticeable. A snail removal experiment was perfo...

M. W. Miller in Coral Reefs (2001)