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Open AccessVariation in species and functional composition of octocorals and zoantharians across a tropical to temperate environmental gradient in the Indo-Pacific
Global warming causes functional shifts and reorganisation in marine communities through range shifts to high-latitude reefs and cnidarian bleaching mortality in the tropics. Such changes threaten the integrit...
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Phylogenomics of Palythoa (Hexacorallia: Zoantharia): probing species boundaries in a globally distributed genus
Zoantharians (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia: Zoantharia) of the genus Palythoa are ubiquitous species that occupy reef habitats in every tropical ocean. Disagreements among classifications based on morphology, reproduct...
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Open AccessEvolution and biogeography of the Zanclea-Scleractinia symbiosis
Scleractinian corals provide habitats for a broad variety of cryptofauna, which in turn may contribute to the overall functioning of coral symbiomes. Among these invertebrates, hydrozoans belonging to the genus Z...
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Open AccessFunctional diversity of reef molluscs along a tropical-to-temperate gradient
Global warming is leading to range shifts of marine species, threatening the structure and functioning of ecological communities and human populations that rely on them. The largest changes are seen in biogeog...
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Diversity of zoantharian species and their symbionts from the Macaronesian and Cape Verde ecoregions demonstrates their widespread distribution in the Atlantic Ocean
Zooxanthellate zoantharians (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) are commonly found in tropical and subtropical marine regions around the world. However, due to the low genetic variability of commonly used DNA markers combine...
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Ceriantharia in Current Systematics: Life Cycles, Morphology and Genetics
The systematics of the class Anthozoa has been built-up by a number of authors with different approaches. However, despite all efforts the evolutionary position of the tube-dwelling anemones (subclass/order Ce...
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Morphologically plastic responses to shading in the zoanthids Zoanthus sansibaricus and Palythoa tuberculosa
Zoanthids of the order Zoantharia (Anthozoa: Hexacorallia) exhibit high intraspecific morphological variability, but whether this is due to polymorphism, phenotypic plasticity or a combination of both remains ...
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Phylogenetic analyses of potentially free-living Symbiodinium spp. isolated from coral reef sand in Okinawa, Japan
The existence of “free-living” Symbiodinium that can form symbioses with hosts is implied by the presence of hosts that produce Symbiodinium-free gametes and expulsion and/or expelled symbiotic algae from host. H...
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Molecular identification of symbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium spp.) from Palythoa spp. (Anthozoa: Hexacorallia) in Japan
In Japan, zooxanthellate Palythoa tuberculosa Klunzinger and Palythoa mutuki Verrill (Anthozoa: Hexacorallia: Zoantharia) are found over a 1,000 + km latitudinal range, often in environments where most other zoox...
