Octocorals are one of the most ubiquitous benthic organisms in marine ecosystems from the
shallow tropics to the Antarctic deep sea, providing habitat for numerous organisms as well …

Accurate and detailed reporting of methods is essential for scientific progress, yet it is widely
accepted that authors across all scientific fields tend to provide insufficient methods detail …

Dinoflagellates in the family Symbiodiniaceae occupy multiple ecological niches on tropical,
subtropical, and temperate reefs, ranging from species that are exclusively free-living to …

Anthozoa is the most specious class of the phylum Cnidaria that is phylogenetically basal
within the Metazoa. It is an interesting group for studying the evolution of mutualisms and …

Unlike reef-building, scleractinian corals, Caribbean soft corals (octocorals) have not
suffered marked declines in abundance associated with anthropogenic ocean warming …

Background Ocean warming is a leading cause of increasing episodes of coral bleaching,
the dissociation between coral hosts and their dinoflagellate algal symbionts in the family …

Despite the global focus on the occurrence of regime shifts on shallow-water tropical coral
reefs over the last two decades, most of this research continues to focus on changes to algal …

Dinoflagellates of the genus Symbiodinium, the endosymbiont of reef corals, play an
important role in coral-bleaching events which can be induced by prolonged enhanced …

Coral reefs throughout the tropics have experienced large declines in the abundance of
scleractinian corals over the last few decades, and some reefs are becoming functionally …

Coral reefs are amongst the most biodiverse ecosystems on earth, and while stony corals
create the foundational complexity of these ecosystems, octocorals and anemones …