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Open AccessSymbiont community dynamics in the turbid reef specialist, Turbinaria reniformis, along a latitudinal and environmental gradient in Western Australia
Thermal stress triggers the breakdown of the obligate symbiosis between the cnidarian coral host and its autotrophic dinoflagellates of the family Symbiodiniaceae. This diverse family exhibits pronounced funct...
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Open AccessTrue random number generation using the spin crossover in LaCoO3
While digital computers rely on software-generated pseudo-random number generators, hardware-based true random number generators (TRNGs), which employ the natural physics of the underlying hardware, provide tr...
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Open AccessTunable stochastic memristors for energy-efficient encryption and computing
Information security and computing, two critical technological challenges for post-digital computation, pose opposing requirements – security (encryption) requires a source of unpredictability, while computing...
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Open AccessEconomic Evaluation Comparing Virtual Reality with Child Life Programming for Non-sedated Pediatric Medical Imaging: A Cost-Consequence Analysis
Effective preparation of children for hospital procedures, including non-sedated medical imaging, is an important clinical issue. This study aimed to assess the costs and consequences (effects) of preparing pe...
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Open AccessDistinct coral reef habitat communities characterized by environmental DNA metabarcoding
Coral reefs are biodiversity hotspots, places of high endemicity and provide essential services to billions of people globally. With increasing threats to these reefs worldwide, there is a need to implement fa...
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Coral host physiology and symbiont dynamics associated with differential recovery from mass bleaching in an extreme, macro-tidal reef environment in northwest Australia
As marine heatwaves increasingly threaten coral reefs worldwide, some extreme reef environments naturally expose corals to high-temperature fluctuations and can therefore provide important insights into the me...
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Contrasting patterns of genetic connectivity in brooding and spawning corals across a remote atoll system in northwest Australia
An understanding of larval dispersal and connectivity in corals provides valuable insight into the processes of population maintenance and replenishment and is vital for effective management. Here, we used a g...
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Development of a multi-assay approach for monitoring coral diversity using eDNA metabarcoding
Cumulative anthropogenic pressures have triggered a global decline in the health of marine ecosystems, and coral reefs, in particular, are in crisis. With climate and population-related pressures predicted to ...
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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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A fluorescence-based quantitative real-time PCR assay for accurate Pocillopora damicornis species identification
Pocillopora damicornis is one of the most extensively studied coral species globally, but high levels of phenotypic plasticity within the genus make species identification based on morpho...
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Severe loss of anemones and anemonefishes from a premier tourist attraction at the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia
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Isolation and characterisation of twelve polymorphic microsatellite markers for Xestospongia spp. and their use for confirming species identity
Barrel sponges are one of the largest and most conspicuous members of the coral reef fauna across the Indo-Pacific that are under threat from habitat degradation. Twelve novel microsatellite markers were devel...
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Characterization of polymorphic microsatellite markers for the red rock lobster, Jasus edwardsii (Hutton 1875)
Jasus edwardsii is New Zealand’s largest seafood export species and supports valuable customary and recreational fisheries. Nine novel microsatellite markers were developed from 454 sequence data...
