Pocillopora damicornis
Physiological responses of the scleractinian coral Pocillopora damicornis to bacterial stress from Vibrio coralliilyticus
... coral, Pocillopora damicornis , when exposed to a specific pathogen ( Vibrio coralliilyticus ) under virulent (increasing water temperature) and non- virulent (constant low temperature) ...
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Thermal regime and host clade, rather than geography, drive Symbiodinium and bacterial assemblages in the scleractinian coral Pocillopora damicornis sensu lato
... of Pocillopora damicornis sensu lato samples In this study, we sampled Pocillopora damicornis sensu lato colonies in four regions and phylogenetic analyses revealed a complex ...to ...
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Nutrient cycling in early coral life stages: Pocillopora damicornis larvae provide their algal symbiont (Symbiodinium) with nitrogen acquired from bacterial associates
... Pocillopora damicornis colonies were collected in March 2009, from Coral Bay, Ningaloo Reef (23°07′S, 113°07′E) and kept in aquaria for 5 days until larvae were ...
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Planulation in the Scleractinian Coral Pocillopora damicornis in Singapore Waters
... coral, Pocillopora damicornis (Linnaeus 1816), common on Singapore reefs were observed from August to November ...P. damicornis populations of the Central Pacific, particularly those of Palau, as ...
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Impact of diurnal temperature fluctuations on larval settlement and growth of the reef coral Pocillopora damicornis
... coral Pocillopora damicornis will be affected by the diurnally oscillatory temperatures, together with ocean ...P. damicornis is a widely distributed and major reef-building coral on reef flats in ...
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Inhibition of photosynthetic CO2 fixation in the coral Pocillopora damicornis and its relationship to thermal bleaching
... coral Pocillopora damicornis (Linnaeus 1758) under optimal and elevated temperature while manipulating the function of the Calvin–Benson cycle using chemical ...P. damicornis under thermal bleaching ...
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A rapid genetic assay for the identification of the most common Pocillopora damicornis genetic lineages on the Great Barrier Reef
... Pocillopora damicornis (Linnaeus, 1758; Scleractinia, Pocilloporidae) has recently been found to comprise at least five distinct genetic lineages in Eastern Australia, some of which likely represent cryptic ...
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Subcellular Investigation of Photosynthesis Driven Carbon Assimilation in the Symbiotic Reef Coral Pocillopora damicornis
... coral Pocillopora damicornis by combining nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry (NanoSIMS) and trans- mission electron microscopy with pulse-chase isotopic labeling using [ 13 C]bicarbonate and [ 15 ...
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Genetic differentiation, reproductive mode, and gene flow in the brooding coral pocillopora damicornis along the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
... This is the first large-scale survey of genetic vari- 177 ation in any coral, with the following objectives: 1 to establish the relative contribution of sexual and asexual reproduction t[r] ...
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Preconditioning in the reef building coral Pocillopora damicornis and the potential for trans generational acclimatization in coral larvae under future climate change conditions
... stress through multiple life stages via parental effects, or epigenetic mechanisms such as trans-generational acclimatization Bossdorf et al., 2008; Bonduriansky and Day, 2009; Schlichti[r] ...
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Photoinhibition from chronic herbicide exposure reduces reproductive output of reef-building corals
... Fecundity of brooding coral: One branch per colony (n = 6 colonies for each treatment) was randomly sam- pled from the internal brooder Pocillopora damicornis, as described above for lipid analysis and ...
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Conspecific aggregations mitigate the effects of ocean acidification on calcification of the coral Pocillopora verrucosa
... and Pocillopora damicornis that exposure to reduced flow speeds enhanced their calcification when the overlying seawater was manipulated to a reduced pH ...
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The molecular basis of differential morphology and bleaching thresholds in two morphs of the coral Pocillopora acuta
... phylum. Pocillopora acuta, a species of scleractinian coral that was recently split from the widespread Pocillopora damicornis species complex, occurs in at least two distinct morphs on the Great ...
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Coral bleaching under thermal stress: putative involvement of host/symbiont recognition mechanisms
... Results: In our experimental procedure, one set of Pocillopora damicornis nubbins was subjected to a gradual increase of water temperature from 28°C to 32°C over 15 days. A second control set kept at ...
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Articles
... genus Pocillopora Lamarck, 1816, is of special interest as it is characterised by exceptionally high levels of phenotypic variation (Veron 2000, Flot and Tillier 2006, Schmidt-Roach et ...example, ...
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Computational Characterization of the mtORF of Pocilloporid Corals: Insights into Differences in Protein Structure and Function among Stylophora Lineages from Contrasting Environments
... Stylophora RS_LinA Madracis mirabilis Pocillopora damicornis Seriatopora hystrix Stylophora pistillata Stylophora RS_LinB. Stylophora RS_LinA Madracis mirabilis Pocillopora damicor[r] ...
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Inter-specific variation in susceptibility to grazing among common reef corals
... To ensure our observations were comparable among the 3 reefs we used separate 1-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) to test for differences in both the abundance of corallivorous fishes and the total cover of live sclerac- ...
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Genetic systems and hereditary structures of reef corals
... The release of such asexual planulae has strongly influenced the genetic structure of populations of Pocillopora damicornis in Australia and Hawaii Stoddart, 1983a, 1984 and must be cons[r] ...
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Variation in growth rates of branching corals along Australia's Great Barrier Reef
... Separate analyses were conducted for each coral species (Acropora mucicata, Pocillopora damicornis, Isopora pal- ifera). For all models the fixed effect was location and as a random effect sampling period ...
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Among species variation in the energy budgets of reef building corals: scaling from coral polyps to communities
... The symbiosis between corals and dinoflagellates promotes the rapid growth of corals in shallow tropical oceans, and the high overall productivity of coral reefs. The aim of this study was to quantify and understand ...
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