The ability of bottom‐dwelling marine epifauna to regenerate injured or lost body parts is
critical to the survival of individuals from disturbances that inflict wounds. Numerous studies …

There are some fundamental generalizations that can be made about the biology and
ecology of invertebrates associated with coral reefs. For example, it is widely accepted that …

Here we consider the growing knowledge on symbiotic polychaetes since this particular
group of worms, and their relationships with their hosts, were reviewed by Martin & Britayev …

Endosymbionts are organisms that live within the growing skeleton of a live host organism,
producing a cavity called a bioclaustration. The endosymbiont lives inside the …

The scleractinian finger coral Porites compressa has been documented to develop raised
growth anomalies of unknown origin, commonly referred to as “tumors”. These skeletal …

Symbiotic associations are a poorly studied aspect of the fossil record, owing largely to the
taphonomic biases that inhibit direct observation that two organisms shared an intimate …

One of the most widespread coral diseases linked to anthropogenic activities and recorded
on reefs worldwide is characterized by anomalous growth formations in stony corals …

Cnidarians, especially skeleton-bearing anthozoans and hydrocorals, are known to host
abundant and diverse symbiotic fauna encompassing members of the majority of metazoan …

The study of coral disease has suffered from an absence of systematic approaches that are
commonly used to determine causes of diseases in animals. There is a critical need to …

Some solitary caryophylliid (Caryophyllia, Trochocyathus, and Ceratotrochus) and flabellid
(Flabellum) scleractinian corals from Pliocene of Western Mediterranean exhibit long groove …