The engine of the reef: photobiology of the coral–algal symbiosis

MS Roth - Frontiers in microbiology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Coral reef ecosystems thrive in tropical oligotrophic oceans because of the relationship
between corals and endosymbiotic dinoflagellate algae called Symbiodinium …

Fluorescent proteins for live-cell imaging with super-resolution

K Nienhaus, GU Nienhaus - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Fluorescent proteins (FPs) from the GFP family have become indispensable as marker tools
for imaging live cells, tissues and entire organisms. A wide variety of these proteins have …

Diversity and evolution of coral fluorescent proteins

NO Alieva, KA Konzen, SF Field, EA Meleshkevitch… - PloS one, 2008 - journals.plos.org
GFP-like fluorescent proteins (FPs) are the key color determinants in reef-building corals
(class Anthozoa, order Scleractinia) and are of considerable interest as potential genetically …

Fluorescent proteins for live cell imaging: opportunities, limitations, and challenges

J Wiedenmann, F Oswald, GU Nienhaus - IUBMB life, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The green fluorescent protein (GFP) from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria can be used as a
genetically encoded fluorescence marker due to its autocatalytic formation of the …

GFP: from jellyfish to the Nobel prize and beyond

M Zimmer - Chemical Society Reviews, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
On December 10, 2008 Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien were awarded
the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “the discovery and development of the green fluorescent …

Corals from the Persian/Arabian Gulf as models for thermotolerant reef-builders: prevalence of clade C3 Symbiodinium, host fluorescence and ex situ temperature …

B Hume, C D'angelo, J Burt, AC Baker, B Riegl… - Marine pollution …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract Corals in the Arabian/Persian Gulf endure summer temperatures of up to 36° C,
making them ideal subjects to study the mechanisms underlying thermal tolerance …

Structural characterization of IrisFP, an optical highlighter undergoing multiple photo-induced transformations

V Adam, M Lelimousin, S Boehme… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Photoactivatable fluorescent proteins (FPs) are powerful fluorescent highlighters in live cell
imaging and offer perspectives for optical nanoscopy and the development of biophotonic …

Light gradients and optical microniches in coral tissues

D Wangpraseurt, AWD Larkum, PJ Ralph… - Frontiers in …, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Light quantity and quality are among the most important factors determining the physiology
and stress response of zooxanthellate corals. Yet, almost nothing is known about the light …

Reviewing the relevance of fluorescence in biological systems

MG Lagorio, GB Cordon, A Iriel - Photochemical & Photobiological …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Fluorescence is emitted by diverse living organisms. The analysis and interpretation of these
signals may give information about their physiological state, ways of communication among …

Rapid acclimation of juvenile corals to CO2‐mediated acidification by upregulation of heat shock protein and Bcl‐2 genes

A Moya, L Huisman, S Foret, JP Gattuso… - Molecular …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Corals play a key role in ocean ecosystems and carbonate balance, but their molecular
response to ocean acidification remains unclear. The only previous whole‐transcriptome …