Acropora millepora
Sediment characteristics influence the fertilisation success of the corals Acropora tenuis and Acropora millepora
... Two common tropical broadcast-spawning coral species re- presentative of shallow reefs from the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) to Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia (WA), Acropora tenuis (Dana, 1846) and Acropora ...
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Relationship between Acropora millepora juvenile fluorescence and composition of newly established Symbiodinium assemblage
... coral, Acropora millepora, displays conspicuous fluorescent polymorphism during all phases of its life cycle, due to the differential expression of fluorescent proteins (FPs) of the green fluorescent ...
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A comparison of two methods of obtaining densities of zooxanthellae in Acropora millepora
... This study revealed highly signifi cant differences in zooxanthellae estimates obtained using standard air- brushing of coral samples collected from replicate col- onies of Acropora millepora, versus ...
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Effects of suspended sediments, dissolved inorganic nutrients and salinity on fertilisation and embryo development in the coral Acropora millepora (Ehrenberg, 1834)
... Abstract Exposure of coral reefs to river plumes carrying increasing loads of nutrients and sediments is a pressing issue for coral reefs around the world including the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). Laboratory experiments ...
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The acute transcriptional response of the coral Acropora millepora to immune challenge: expression of GiMAP/IAN genes links the innate immune responses of corals with those of mammals and plants
... coral Acropora millepora, a “near complete” transcriptome assembly is available [20], permitting comprehensive and relatively unbiased ana- lyses of coral immune ...A. millepora to muramyl dipeptide ...
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Expression of putative immune response genes during early ontogeny in the coral Acropora millepora
... coral Acropora millepora showed differential expression of putative immune response genes during a six month period following settlement, raising the possibility that the candidate genes tested may be ...
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The skeletal proteome of the coral Acropora millepora: the evolution of calcification by co-option and domain shuffling
... In corals, biocalcification is a major function that may be drastically affected by ocean acidification (OA). Scleractinian corals grow by building up aragonitic exoskeletons that provide support and protection for soft ...
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The neuronal calcium sensor protein acrocalcin: a potential target of calmodulin regulation during development in the coral Acropora millepora
... of Acropora millepora development: 1) the pre-gastrulation ‘‘prawnchip’’ (PC) stage, 2) late gastrula ‘‘sphere’’ (S), 3) early planula ‘‘pear’’ (Pea), 4) planula larva (Pla) and 5) settled juvenile polyps ...
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Chimerism and allorecognition in the broadcast spawning coral Acropora millepora on the Great Barrier Reef
... in Acropora millepora juveniles for six months post-settlement, to explore the molecular basis of allorecognition ...A. millepora, the crucial role lectins may play in the allorecognition and innate ...
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Bimodal signatures of germline methylation are linked with gene expression plasticity in the coral Acropora millepora
... These findings have led to the hypothesis that inver- tebrate DNA methylation is involved in regulating en- vironmentally driven gene expression and phenotypic plasticity [9,11]. Among marine invertebrates, this hy- ...
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Colour polymorphism and its role in stress tolerance in the coral Acropora millepora on the Great Barrier Reef
... coral Acropora millepora contain different concentrations of FPs (Chapter 2), which have been linked to their variation in thermal tolerance (Chapter ...A. millepora, are hypothesized to be ...
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The molecular stress response in the Indo-Pacific model scleractinian coral, Acropora millepora
... Fig. 4.4. Expression patterns of Hydra and Acropora USP genes. (A) Expression of Hmag01 in Hydra magnipapillata. This gene is expressed throughout the trunk endoderm, but transcripts are absent from the tentacle. ...
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Effects of variability in daily light integrals on the photophysiology of the corals Pachyseris speciosa and Acropora millepora
... contrast, Acropora millepora’s photoprotective branching morphology enables it to tolerate high DLI, whereas it’s slow photoacclimation, inability to rapidly reduce energeti- cally expensive respiration rates and ...
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Chemical effects of macroalgae on larval settlement of the broadcast spawning coral Acropora millepora
... ABSTRACT: Recovery of degraded reefs is dependent on the settlement of coral larvae into habitats typically dominated by benthic algae, so that benthic algae may play pivotal roles in coral settlement and reef recovery. ...
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Characterization of the Wnt signalling system in the coral Acropora millepora
... coral Acropora millepora is comparable to that of Nematostella with the presence of most of its components including the antagonists of Wnt signalling ...in Acropora millepora revealed that ...
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Primary life stage boron isotope and trace elements incorporation in aposymbiotic Acropora millepora coral under ocean acidification and warming
... the Acropora millepora was induced (Day 5) after fertilization by the introduction of unglazed terracotta tiles conditioned with crustose coralline algae under ambient seawater ...A. millepora polyps ...
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Transcriptional activation of c3 and hsp70 as part of the immune response of Acropora millepora to bacterial challenges
... response. The transcriptional upregulation of c3 in response to microbial challenges reported here, coupled with previous molecular characterization showing similarity in functionally critical domain structures and amino ...
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Host coenzyme Q redox state is an early biomarker of thermal stress in the coral Acropora millepora
... the Acropora millepora CoQ and the Symbiodinium PQ pool redox states are maintained predominantly in their reduced forms (a prerequisite for antioxidant action), and acute heat-stress causes increased ...
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Genetic variation in responses to a settlement cue and elevated temperature in the reef-building coral Acropora millepora
... of Acropora millepora lack zooxanthellae symbionts, the observed differences among families are attributable to the coral rather than different symbiont ...
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Nature or nurture?: testing the correlation between stress tolerance and genotype in the coral Acropora millepora on the Great Barrier Reef
... The advent of next-generation sequencing has brought about an explosion of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data in non-model organisms; however, profiling these SNPs across multiple natural populations still ...
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