A research review of interventions to increase the persistence and resilience of coral reefs

National Academies of Sciences, Life Studies… - 2019 - books.google.com
Coral reef declines have been recorded for all major tropical ocean basins since the 1980s,
averaging approximately 30-50% reductions in reef cover globally. These losses are a result …

Synthesis and scope of the role of postmating prezygotic isolation in speciation

MD Garlovsky, E Whittington… - Cold Spring …, 2024 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
How barriers to gene flow arise and are maintained are key questions in evolutionary
biology. Speciation research has mainly focused on barriers that occur either before mating …

Assisted gene flow using cryopreserved sperm in critically endangered coral

M Hagedorn, CA Page, KL O'Neil… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Assisted gene flow (AGF) is a conservation intervention to accelerate species adaptation to
climate change by importing genetic diversity into at-risk populations. Corals exemplify both …

Long-term reduced spawning in Orbicella coral species due to temperature stress

DR Levitan, W Boudreau, J Jara… - Marine Ecology Progress …, 2014 - int-res.com
We examined the long-term reproductive consequence of bleaching stress on Caribbean
corals in the Orbicella (formerly Montastraea) species complex (O. annularis, O. faveolata …

Cryptic lineages respond differently to coral bleaching

M Gómez‐Corrales, C Prada - Molecular Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Coral cover is decreasing worldwide largely as a result of a rise in seawater temperatures
that triggers coral bleaching and induces coral mortality. How coral reefs will respond to …

Clonal structure and variable fertilization success in Florida Keys broadcast-spawning corals

MW Miller, IB Baums, RE Pausch, AJ Bright… - Coral Reefs, 2018 - Springer
Keystone reef-building corals in the Caribbean are predominantly self-incompatible
broadcast spawners and a majority are threatened due to both acute adult mortality and …

Patterns in Caribbean coral spawning

AC Jordan - 2018 - nsuworks.nova.edu
Most corals worldwide are broadcast spawners that rely on synchronous gamete release for
successful fertilization. Spawning synchrony may also decrease the probability of …

Differences in spawning time drive cryptic speciation in the coral Acropora divaricata

M Furukawa, S Ohki, S Kitanobo, H Fukami, M Morita - Marine Biology, 2020 - Springer
Most of the reef-building Acropora corals around Okinawa Island spawn in May and/or June.
We found that two morphotypes of Acropora divaricata spawned in August and/or …

Do sperm really compete and do eggs ever have a choice? Adult distribution and gamete mixing influence sexual selection, sexual conflict, and the evolution of …

DR Levitan - The American Naturalist, 2018 - journals.uchicago.edu
The evolution of gametic compatibility and the effectiveness of compatibility, within and
across species, depend on whether sperm from different males directly compete for an egg …

Chromosome-level genome assemblies and genetic maps reveal heterochiasmy and macrosynteny in endangered Atlantic Acropora

NS Locatelli, SA Kitchen, KH Stankiewicz, CC Osborne… - BMC genomics, 2024 - Springer
Background Over their evolutionary history, corals have adapted to sea level rise and
increasing ocean temperatures, however, it is unclear how quickly they may respond to …