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Open AccessGut microbial communities of hybridising pygmy angelfishes reflect species boundaries
Hybridisation and introgression of eukaryotic genomes can generate new species or subsume existing ones, with direct and indirect consequences for biodiversity. An understudied component of these evolutionary ...
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Hybridisation and the evolution of coral reef biodiversity
Hybridisation has traditionally been considered rare and unimportant in generating biodiversity in the marine environment, particularly in coral reefs ecosystems. Here we review the literature for evidence of ...
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Growth patterns of specialized reef fishes distributed across the Red Sea to Gulf of Aden
Determining how growth rates and body size vary spatially and among reef fish species is important to understanding functional traits and demographic trade-offs. Variability in reef fish growth trajectories ma...
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Keep your friends close and your anemones closer – ecology of the endemic wideband anemonefish, Amphiprion latezonatus
Endemic marine species often exist as metapopulations distributed across several discrete locations, such that their extinction risk is dependent upon population dynamics and persistence at each location. The ...
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Open AccessWidespread low abundance despite habitat availability elevates extinction risk in pygmy seahorses
Due to difficulties with surveying, cryptobenthic fishes are understudied, which limits assessments of their extinction risk. Using a novel survey method (a combination of underwater visual census and underwat...
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Do ecological traits of low abundance and niche overlap promote hybridisation among coral-reef angelfishes?
Hybridisation among species of coral-reef fish was previously considered to be rare. However, recent studies have revealed that hybridisation is prevalent in coral-reef fish, highlighting the need to understan...
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Social–environmental drivers inform strategic management of coral reefs in the Anthropocene
Without drastic efforts to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate globalized stressors, tropical coral reefs are in jeopardy. Strategic conservation and management requires identification of the environmental an...
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The state of Western Australia’s coral reefs
Western Australia’s coral reefs have largely escaped the chronic pressures affecting other reefs around the world, but are regularly affected by seasonal storms and cyclones, and increasingly by heat stress an...
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Synchronous behavioural shifts in reef fishes linked to mass coral bleaching
Mass coral bleaching causes population declines and mortality of coral reef species1 yet its impacts on behaviour are largely unknown. Here, we unite behavioural theory with community ecology to test whether blea...
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Distributional responses to marine heat waves: insights from length frequencies across the geographic range of the endemic reef fish Choerodon rubescens
Range shifts as a result of warming oceans call for evaluation of populations at the geographic range level, particularly for highly vulnerable species such as endemics and fisheries targets. We examined the i...
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Open AccessGenomic signatures of local adaptation reveal source-sink dynamics in a high gene flow fish species
Understanding source-sink dynamics is important for conservation management, particularly when climatic events alter species’ distributions. Following a 2011 ‘marine heatwave’ in Western Australia, we observed...
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Comparative phylogeography of reef fishes from the Gulf of Aden to the Arabian Sea reveals two cryptic lineages
The Arabian Sea is a heterogeneous region with high coral cover and warm stable conditions at the western end (Djibouti), in contrast to sparse coral cover, cooler temperatures, and upwelling at the eastern en...
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Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals
During 2015–2016, record temperatures triggered a pan-tropical episode of coral bleaching, the third global-scale event since mass bleaching was first documented in the 1980s. Here we examine how and why the s...
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Stars and stripes: biofluorescent lures in the striated frogfish indicate role in aggressive mimicry
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Hybridisation among groupers (genus Cephalopholis) at the eastern Indian Ocean suture zone: taxonomic and evolutionary implications
Hybridisation is a significant evolutionary process that until recently was considered rare in the marine environment. A suture zone in the eastern Indian Ocean is home to numerous hybridising sister species, ...
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Erratum to: Key aspects of the biology, fisheries and management of Coral grouper
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Key aspects of the biology, fisheries and management of Coral grouper
Coral grouper (genus Plectropomus), or coral trout, are members of the grouper family (Epinephelidae) and are one of the largest and most conspicuous predatory fishes on Indo-Pacific coral reefs. They are highly-...
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Genetic connectivity and self-replenishment of inshore and offshore populations of the endemic anemonefish, Amphiprion latezonatus
Globally, marine species are under increasing pressure from human activities, including ocean warming, acidification, pollution, and overfishing. Species most vulnerable to these pressures tend to be ecologica...
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The importance of ecological and behavioural data in studies of hybridisation among marine fishes
Natural hybridisation is a widespread phenomenon, particularly well documented in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems, where it has been ascribed substantial evolutionary and adaptive relevance. Hybridisatio...
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Reassessing the trophic role of reef sharks as apex predators on coral reefs
Apex predators often have strong top-down effects on ecosystem components and are therefore a priority for conservation and management. Due to their large size and conspicuous predatory behaviour, reef sharks ...
