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Open AccessDissecting coral recovery: bleaching reduces reproductive output in Acropora millepora
Increasingly frequent and severe bleaching events driven by climate change are decreasing coral populations worldwide. Recovery of these populations relies on reproduction by the survivors of such events inclu...
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Identifying, Monitoring, and Managing Adaptive Genetic Variation in Reef-Building Corals under Rapid Climate Warming
The persistence of reef-building corals is dependent on evolutionary responses to climate change. Yet, it remains uncertain whether populations have already adapted to recent warming (+0.6 °C since 1980) and i...
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Open AccessRapid counting and spectral sorting of live coral larvae using large-particle flow cytometry
Research with coral embryos and larvae often requires laborious manual counting and sorting of individual specimens, usually via microscopy. Because many coral species spawn only once per year during a narrow ...
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Temporal and spatial variation in fatty acid composition in Acropora tenuis corals along water quality gradients on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Fatty acids (FA) play a vital role in coral physiology, metabolism and stress resistance. Optimal health requires a balance of fatty acids, and more specifically essential polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), f...
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Open AccessUnexpected mixed-mode transmission and moderate genetic regulation of Symbiodinium communities in a brooding coral
Determining the extent to which Symbiodinium communities in corals are inherited versus environmentally acquired is fundamental to understanding coral resilience and to predicting coral responses to stressors lik...
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New interventions are needed to save coral reefs
We anticipate that conventional management approaches will be insufficient to protect coral reefs, even if global warming is limited to 1.5 °C. Emerging technologies are needed to stem the decline of these nat...
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Open AccessHeritability of the Symbiodinium community in vertically- and horizontally-transmitting broadcast spawning corals
The dinoflagellate-coral partnership influences the coral holobiont’s tolerance to thermal stress and bleaching. However, the comparative roles of host genetic versus environmental factors in determining the c...
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Open AccessIntraspecific differences in molecular stress responses and coral pathobiome contribute to mortality under bacterial challenge in Acropora millepora
Disease causes significant coral mortality worldwide; however, factors responsible for intraspecific variation in disease resistance remain unclear. We exposed fragments of eight Acropora millepora colonies (geno...
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Open AccessBimodal signatures of germline methylation are linked with gene expression plasticity in the coral Acropora millepora
In invertebrates, genes belonging to dynamically regulated functional categories appear to be less methylated than “housekee**” genes, suggesting that DNA methylation may modulate gene expression plasticity....
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Isolation and characterization of twenty microsatellite markers for the study of hybridization in butterflyfish of the genus Chaetodon
Twenty polymorphic microsatellite loci were developed via 454 sequencing for two hybridizing sister species of butterflyfish: the spot-band butterflyfish (Chaetodon punctatofasciatus) and peppered butterflyfish (
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Isolation and characterization of 29 microsatellite loci for studies of population connectivity in the butterflyfishes Chaetodon trifascialis and Chaetodon lunulatus
The highly specialised coral feeding butterflyfish Chaetodon trifascialis is increasingly threatened by the global degradation of coral reef habitats. To reveal the population genetic structure of C. trifascialis
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Open AccessMeta-population structure in a coral reef fish demonstrated by genetic data on patterns of migration, extinction and re-colonisation
Management strategies for coral reefs are dependant on information about the spatial population structure and connectivity of reef organisms. Genetic tools can reveal important information about population str...
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Development and characterization of microsatellite markers for parentage analyses of the coral reef damselfish (Pomacentrus amboinensis: Pomacentridae)
Five new polymorphic microsatellite loci were developed for the coral reef damselfish Pomacentrus amboinensis. Twenty-four individuals from two Great Barrier Reef populations were genotyped at the five loci, with...
