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    Microhabitat use and prey selection of the coral-feeding snail Drupella cornus in the northern Red Sea

    Corallivorous gastropods of the genus Drupella are known for population outbreaks throughout the Indo-Pacific region. Despite their potential to destroy wide areas of coral reef, prey preferences have never been ...

    Verena Schoepf, Jürgen Herler, Martin Zuschin in Hydrobiologia (2010)

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    Phylogenetic relationships of coral-associated gobies (Teleostei, Gobiidae) from the Red Sea based on mitochondrial DNA data

    Bryaninops, Gobiodon, Paragobiodon and Pleurosicya are the most abundant genera of coral-associated gobies. These genera are adapted to live among coral, while other small reef gobies (e.g., the genus Eviota) sho...

    Jürgen Herler, Stephan Koblmüller, Christian Sturmbauer in Marine Biology (2009)

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    Red fluorescence in reef fish: A novel signalling mechanism?

    At depths below 10 m, reefs are dominated by blue-green light because seawater selectively absorbs the longer, 'red' wavelengths beyond 600 nm from the downwelling sunlight. Consequently, the visual pigments o...

    Nico K Michiels, Nils Anthes, Nathan S Hart, Jürgen Herler, Alfred J Meixner in BMC Ecology (2008)