Cell biology of cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis

SK Davy, D Allemand, VM Weis - Microbiology and Molecular …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
The symbiosis between cnidarians (eg, corals or sea anemones) and intracellular
dinoflagellate algae of the genus Symbiodinium is of immense ecological importance. In …

Living in the now: physiological mechanisms to tolerate a rapidly changing environment

GE Hofmann, AE Todgham - Annual review of physiology, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide has resulted in scientific projections of changes in global
temperatures, climate in general, and surface seawater chemistry. Although the …

[图书][B] Cold-water corals: the biology and geology of deep-sea coral habitats

JM Roberts - 2009 - books.google.com
" There are more coral species in deep, cold-waters than in tropical coral reefs. This broad-
ranging treatment is the first to synthesise current understanding of all types of cold-water …

The effect of ocean acidification on calcifying organisms in marine ecosystems: an organism-to-ecosystem perspective

GE Hofmann, JP Barry, PJ Edmunds… - Annual review of …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Ocean acidification (OA), a consequence of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions, poses
a serious threat to marine organisms in tropical, open-ocean, coastal, deep-sea, and high …

Gene expression associated with white syndromes in a reef building coral, Acropora hyacinthus

RM Wright, GV Aglyamova, E Meyer, MV Matz - BMC genomics, 2015 - Springer
Background Corals are capable of launching diverse immune defenses at the site of direct
contact with pathogens, but the molecular mechanisms of this activity and the colony-wide …

Coral calcification, cells to reefs

D Allemand, É Tambutté, D Zoccola… - Coral reefs: an ecosystem …, 2011 - Springer
In spite of more than one century and half of studies, mechanisms of coral biomineralization,
leading to coral growth and reef formation, still remain poorly known, although major global …

Coral biomineralization: from the gene to the environment

S Tambutté, M Holcomb, C Ferrier-Pagès… - Journal of Experimental …, 2011 - Elsevier
In this review we discuss the present knowledge on the biological and environmental control
of biomineralization (calcification) in hermatypic corals. We describe first the anatomy of the …

[PDF][PDF] Impacts of ocean acidification on coral reefs and other marine calcifiers: a guide for future research

JA Kleypas, RA Feely, VJ Fabry… - Report of a …, 2005 - researchgate.net
1.1 Background Carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the most impor-tant gases in the
atmosphere, affecting the radiative heat balance of the earth as well as the calcium …

Climate change impedes scleractinian corals as primary reef ecosystem engineers

C Wild, O Hoegh-Guldberg, MS Naumann… - Marine and …, 2011 - CSIRO Publishing
Coral reefs are among the most diverse and productive ecosystems on our planet.
Scleractinian corals function as the primary reef ecosystem engineers, constructing the …

Differential gene expression during thermal stress and bleaching in the Caribbean coral Montastraea faveolata

MK DeSalvo, CR Voolstra, S Sunagawa… - Molecular …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The declining health of coral reefs worldwide is likely to intensify in response to continued
anthropogenic disturbance from coastal development, pollution, and climate change. In …