Resilience in reef‐building corals: The ecological and evolutionary importance of the host response to thermal stress

C Drury - Molecular ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Coral reefs are under extreme threat due to a number of stressors, but temperature
increases due to changing climate are the most severe. Rising ocean temperatures coupled …

Removal of Cd, Pb, Zn, Cu in smelter soil by citric acid leaching

X Ke, FJ Zhang, Y Zhou, HJ Zhang, GL Guo, Y Tian - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
Soil washing has been verified as a feasible technology for source reduction for
contaminated soil with heavy metals. We conducted batch and column leaching experiments …

Population genetic structure of the great star coral, Montastraea cavernosa, across the Cuban archipelago with comparisons between microsatellite and SNP markers

AB Sturm, RJ Eckert, JG Méndez, P González-Díaz… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Coral reef habitats surrounding Cuba include relatively healthy, well-developed shallow and
mesophotic (30–150 m) scleractinian communities at the cross-currents of the Tropical …

Cryptic species and genetic connectivity among populations of the coral Pocillopora damicornis (Scleractinia) in the tropical southwestern Pacific

N Oury, P Gélin, H Magalon - Marine Biology, 2020 - Springer
Studying population genetic connectivity (ie, identifying gene flow among populations and
understanding their impacts on the genetic structure and diversity of populations) is first a …

A resilient brooding coral in the broadcast spawning Porites lobata species complex: a new endemic, introduced species, mutant, or new adaptive potential?

NP Brown, ZH Forsman, KT Tisthammer, RH Richmond - Coral Reefs, 2020 - Springer
With increasing exposure to local and global stressors associated with a rapidly changing
climate, corals adapted to thrive within stressful environments are of particular interest to …

Exposure to the Florida red tide dinoflagellate, Karenia brevis, and its associated brevetoxins induces ecophysiological and proteomic alterations in Porites astreoides

DA Reynolds, MJ Yoo, DL Dixson, C Ross - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
As reef-building corals are increasingly being exposed to persistent threats that operate on
both regional and global scales, there is a pressing need to better understand the complex …

Ecological speciation in corals

AM González, CA Prada, V Ávila, M Medina - Population genomics: Marine …, 2020 - Springer
The ocean is generally a homogenous environment with few geographic barriers that allow
populations to connect over hundreds of kilometers, increasing gene flow and slowing down …

Fine‐scale structure among mesophotic populations of the great star coral Montastraea cavernosa revealed by SNP genotyping

C Drury, R Pérez Portela, XM Serrano… - Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Mesophotic reefs (30‐150 m) have been proposed as potential refugia that facilitate
the recovery of degraded shallow reefs following acute disturbances such as coral …

Population genomics of early-splitting lineages of metazoans

R Pérez-Portela, A Riesgo - Population genomics: Marine organisms, 2020 - Springer
Population genetics/genomics investigates gene flow, genetic diversity within and between
populations, inbreeding, and effective population size, among other parameters. We here …

A model for the investigation of the second-order structure of caustic formations in dispersed flows

A Papoutsakis, M Gavaises - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
The formation of caustics by inertial particles is distinctive of dispersed flows. Their
pressureless nature allows crossing trajectories resulting in singularities that cannot be …