Results: From the Reef
The effects of a variable temperature regime on the physiology of the reef building coral Seriatopora hystrix: results from a laboratory based reciprocal transplant
... and results must always be interpreted ...common reef-building scleractinian, Seriatopora hystrix Dana 1846, acclimates to changes in seawater ...collected from both Houbihu, a reef within ...
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Sensing coral reef connectivity pathways from space
... Coral reef communities of the Red Sea exhibit remarkable genetic homogeneity across most of the Arabian Peninsula coastline, with a genetic break towards the southern part of the ...assess reef connectivity ...
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Otolith chemistry of the non-dispersing reef fish Acanthochromis polyacanthus: cross-shelf patterns from the central Great Barrier Reef
... significant results of previous studies on otolith chemistry at similar spatial scales along the coast, combined with the strong gradients known to occur across the shelf, our largely non-significant cross-shelf ...
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Large–scale movement and reef fidelity of grey reef sharks
... These results provide new data relevant to planning of reef shark research and ...that reef sharks move between closely spaced reefs and undertake large-scale ...accurate results. Therefore ...
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Reef fish hybridization: lessons learnt from butterflyfishes (genus Chaetodon)
... the results from mtDNA analyses were not sufficient to confirm the hybrid status of the intermediately colored individuals, which could simply be an aberrant color pattern of ...distinct from (and ...
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Effects of temperature on the respiration of brooded larvae from tropical reef corals
... larvae from Pocillopora damicornis , Seriatopora hystrix and Stylophora pistillata were quantified in darkness as oxygen uptake during 1–3 h exposures to five temperatures between ...our results predict ...
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Chromosomal diversification of reef fishes from genus Centropyge (Perciformes, Pomacanthidae)
... The results provided by FISH using 5S rDNA probe also evidenced the role of heterochromatin dispersion in C. aurantonotus. The presence of several 5S rDNA sites overlapping GC-rich het- erochromatic segments is ...
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Comparison of different protocols for the extraction of microbial DNA from reef corals
... The results obtained by PCR-DGGE analysis of the coral- associated bacterial communities showed a clear influence of the different extraction methods on the apparent bacterial diversity and community ...DNA ...
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Compilation of information on the interaction of reef sharks with the reef line fishery in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park: final report to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
... Fisher behaviour may also have affected reporting shark landings due to variable retention practices. Based on catch rates observed in ELF and OBS data sets it seems likely that most fishers would have caught sharks at ...
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Reef odor: a wake up call for navigation in reef fish larvae
... interesting results but provided limited insight as to the stimuli used ...to reef-born chemical cues in their natural settings, we used a novel Lagrangian observational framework ...pelagic reef ...
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The population genetic structure of coral reef fishes on the Great Barrier Reef
... coral reef fish, Acanthochromis polyacanthus, with comparatively low dispersal ...increased from offshore and older populations, to inshore and younger ones, supporting a metapopulation propagule-pool model ...
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The population genetic structure of coral reef fishes on the Great Barrier Reef
... The third possibility is that the higher migration rates estimated based on microsatellites compared to mtDNA is the results of male-biased dispersal. Sex-biased dispersal may evolve where there are differential ...
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The population genetic structure of coral reef fishes on the Great Barrier Reef
... These results indicate that local populations of ...these results suggest that the evolution of the spatial dynamics of this species are best interpreted in a metapopulation ...
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The population genetic structure of coral reef fishes on the Great Barrier Reef
... 90 expressed. In contrast, allele frequencies of rapidly evolving molecular markers should not be as strongly affected by rare long distance dispersers because of the rate at which new genetic variation is generated by ...
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The population genetic structure of coral reef fishes on the Great Barrier Reef
... The distribution of genetic variation within species was compared among species using haplotype networks and the frequency distribution of pairwise differences among individuals pooled from the two sampling ...
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The population genetic structure of coral reef fishes on the Great Barrier Reef
... coral reef fishes on the ...species from this reef-fish ...these results suggest that the population genetic structure of coral reef fishes may be affected by the spatial scale at which ...
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Priority effects in coral reef fish communities of the Great Barrier Reef
... Can results from this study tell us anything about the dynamics of fish communities on larger contiguous reefs? The experimental reefs in this study consisted of a single coral species, whereas contiguous ...
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Reef odor: a wake up call for navigation in reef fish larvae
... interesting results but provided limited insight as to the stimuli used ...to reef-born chemical cues in their natural settings, we used a novel Lagrangian observational framework ...pelagic reef ...
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Fathoming the reef: a history of European perspectives on the Great Barrier Reef from Cook to GBRMPA
... the Reef subsequently became a feature of the explorers' Reef ...his Reef commentary to theories of its geological ...instructions from Francis Beaufort to collect 'every fact which can throw ...
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Integrating observations: an example from the Great Barrier Reef
... Standards in equipment, deployment practices, data structures, processing and quality control, and data access are all required to enable data to be truly integrated in a m[r] ...
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