Development of a coral cDNA array to examine gene expression profiles in Montastraea faveolata exposed to environmental stress

SE Edge, MB Morgan, DF Gleason, TW Snell - Marine pollution bulletin, 2005 - Elsevier
The development of a cDNA array of coral genes and its application to investigate changes
in coral gene expression associated with stressful conditions is described. The array …

Photosynthetic performance of giant clams, Tridacna maxima and T. squamosa, Red Sea

C Jantzen, C Wild, M El-Zibdah, HA Roa-Quiaoit… - Marine Biology, 2008 - Springer
Two species of giant clams, Tridacna maxima and T. squamosa, coexist in the Red Sea, but
exhibit distinctly different depth distributions: T. maxima mostly occurs in shallow waters (reef …

Clade-specific sterol metabolites in dinoflagellate endosymbionts are associated with coral bleaching in response to environmental cues

Y Lu, J Jiang, H Zhao, X Han, Y Xiang, W Zhou - Msystems, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Cnidarians cannot synthesize sterols (which play essential roles in growth and
development) de novo but often use sterols acquired from endosymbiotic dinoflagellates …

Effect of light intensity on post-fragmentation photobiological performance of the soft coral Sinularia flexibilis

RJM Rocha, J Serôdio, MC Leal, P Cartaxana… - Aquaculture, 2013 - Elsevier
The soft coral Sinularia flexibilis is currently considered as a suitable candidate for
aquaculture. This soft coral is commonly traded for marine aquariums, is used in reef …

Relationships among thermal stress, bleaching and oxidative damage in the hermatypic coral, Pocillopora capitata

LA Flores-Ramírez, MA Liñán-Cabello - Comparative Biochemistry and …, 2007 - Elsevier
To examine the response to exposure to a thermal gradient in coral, we assessed the effect
of a gradual 10° C temperature increase (22 to 32° C over 10 h) on normal (N), partially …

Optimization of monoclonal production of the glass anemone Aiptasia pallida (Agassiz in Verrill, 1864)

MC Leal, C Nunes, S Engrola, MT Dinis, R Calado - Aquaculture, 2012 - Elsevier
Sea anemones of genus Aiptasia are commonly used as biological models for
biotechnological and molecular research. They are also employed to study the symbiotic …

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RUIJ MIRANDA - 1999 - core.ac.uk
The increasing demand for soft corals (Octocorallia), either for biotechnological research on
marine natural products (Blunt et al., 2008, 2009) or to supply the marine aquarium trade …

Comparative gene expression in the symbiotic and aposymbiotic Aiptasia pulchella by expressed sequence tag analysis

J Kuo, MC Chen, CH Lin, LS Fang - Biochemical and Biophysical Research …, 2004 - Elsevier
Intracellular symbiotic relationships are prevalent between cnidarians, such as corals and
sea anemones, and the photosynthetic dinoflagellate symbionts. However, there is little …

Determination of canthaxanthin in the red coral (Corallium rubrum) from Marseille by HPLC combined with UV and MS detection

J Cvejic, S Tambutté, S Lotto, M Mikov, I Slacanin… - Marine Biology, 2007 - Springer
Corallium rubrum is the most famous and precious coral due to the intense characteristic red
colour of its skeleton. We have determined the presence of carotenoids in natural samples of …

Physiological adaptation to symbiosis in cnidarians

P Furla, S Richier, D Allemand - Coral reefs: an ecosystem in transition, 2011 - Springer
Up to the nineteenth century, cnidarians, among other organisms such as echinoderms and
sponges, were classified as zoophytes, or animal–plant. This term, initially used by Wotton in …