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Open AccessMicrobial shifts associated to ENSO-derived thermal anomalies reveal coral acclimation at holobiont level
The coral microbiome conforms a proxy to study effects of changing environmental conditions. However, scarce information exists regarding microbiome dynamics and host acclimation in response to environmental c...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Conservation at the edge: connectivity and opportunities from non-protected coral reefs close to a National Park in the Colombian Caribbean
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Open AccessConservation at the edge: connectivity and opportunities from non-protected coral reefs close to a National Park in the Colombian Caribbean
Confronting a sustained coral reef conservation crisis, we need new opportunities to rethink how to protect areas successfully and efficiently in the face of a changing world. We studied the benthic community,...
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Open AccessRemarkable population structure in the tropical Atlantic lace corals Stylaster roseus (Pallas, 1766) and Stylaster blatteus (Boschma, 1961)
Biodiversity on coral reefs depends not only on primary reef-builders, but also on associated taxa that create microhabitats for other species. Hydrocorals of the genus Stylaster, commonly known as lace corals, f...
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Gorgonian Corals
Mesophotic gorgonian corals comprise a polyphyletic group of octocorals mostly with a proteinaceous branching axial skeleton. Dense assemblages of gorgonian corals usually dominate the seascape in mesophotic c...
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Open AccessLocal confinement of disease-related microbiome facilitates recovery of gorgonian sea fans from necrotic-patch disease
Microbiome disruptions triggering disease outbreaks are increasingly threatening corals worldwide. In the Tropical Eastern Pacific, a necrotic-patch disease affecting gorgonian corals (sea fans, Pacifigorgia spp....
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Taking a detour: invasion of an octocoral into the Tropical Eastern Pacific
The tropical snowflake octocoral Carijoa riisei, which is thought to be native to the Indo-Pacific biogeographical region, has been increasingly reported from the Colombian Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) over the...
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Open AccessA case of modular phenotypic plasticity in the depth gradient for the gorgonian coral Antillogorgia bipinnata (Cnidaria: Octocorallia)
Phenotypic plasticity, as a phenotypic response induced by the environment, has been proposed as a key factor in the evolutionary history of corals. A significant number of octocoral species show high phenotyp...
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Open AccessThe Antarctic Circumpolar Current as a diversification trigger for deep-sea octocorals
Antarctica is surrounded by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the largest and strongest current in the world. Despite its potential importance for sha** biogeographical patterns, the distribution and ...
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Remarkable specialization in Eastern Pacific sea fan ectoparasites (Neosimnia)
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Open AccessA time-calibrated molecular phylogeny of the precious corals: reconciling discrepancies in the taxonomic classification and insights into their evolutionary history
Seamount-associated faunas are often considered highly endemic but isolation and diversification processes leading to such endemism have been poorly documented at those depths. Likewise, species delimitation a...
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Open AccessPhylogenetic reconstruction of dengue virus type 2 in Colombia
Dengue fever is perhaps the most important viral re-emergent disease especially in tropical and sub-tropical countries, affecting about 50 million people around the world yearly. In Colombia, dengue virus was ...
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Evaluation of the FORAM index in a case of conservation
Localized and global impacts are responsible for driving the current decline in coral reef ecosystems. The worldwide debate over the efficacy of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) as a conservation measure for cora...
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Linking local to global properties in branching modular networks: gorgonian coral colonies
Branching growth is present both in plants and animals, either marine or terrestrial. Although cellular and other modular levels of organization in plants and animals have evolved through different molecular a...
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Beacon-Less Geographic Routing in Real Wireless Sensor Networks
Geographic Routing (GR) algorithms require nodes to periodically transmit HELLO messages to allow neighbors to know their positions (beaconing mechanism). Beacon-less routing algorithms have recently been prop...
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Open AccessPhenotypic plasticity and morphological integration in a marine modular invertebrate
Colonial invertebrates such as corals exhibit nested levels of modularity, imposing a challenge to the depiction of their morphological evolution. Comparisons among diverse Caribbean gorgonian corals suggest d...
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Open AccessPhylogenetic reconstruction using secondary structures of Internal Transcribed Spacer 2 (ITS2, rDNA): finding the molecular and morphological gap in Caribbean gorgonian corals
Most phylogenetic studies using current methods have focused on primary DNA sequence information. However, RNA secondary structures are particularly useful in systematics because they include characteristics, ...
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Discharged nematocysts of Millepora alcicornis
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An Access Control System for Multimedia Content Distribution
Multimedia content distribution has appeared as a new growth market offered by network providers, defining resource access infrastructures able to support both wired and wireless accesses. Although these infra...
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Adaptive P2P Multimedia Communication Using Hybrid Learning
Multimedia communication in mobile and ad hoc networks used by real time applications can be improved by adding intelligent and adaptive cababilities. This new functionality will allow them to adapt to contant...
