Volumetric imaging of fast cellular dynamics with deep learning enhanced bioluminescence microscopy

LF Morales-Curiel, AC Gonzalez… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Bioluminescence microscopy is an appealing alternative to fluorescence microscopy,
because it does not depend on external illumination, and consequently does neither …

[HTML][HTML] Ciliary flows in corals ventilate target areas of high photosynthetic oxygen production

CO Pacherres, S Ahmerkamp, K Koren, C Richter… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Most tropical corals live in symbiosis with Symbiodiniaceae algae whose photosynthetic
production of oxygen (O 2) may lead to excess O 2 in the diffusive boundary layer (DBL) …

Airy beam light sheet microscopy boosted by deep learning deconvolution

A Stockhausen, JE Rodriguez-Gatica, J Schweihoff… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Common light sheet microscopy comes with a trade-off between light sheet width defining
the optical sectioning and the usable field of view arising from the divergence of the …

Live imaging of center of calcification formation during septum development in primary polyps of Acropora digitifera

Y Ohno, A Takahashi, M Tsutsumi, A Kubota… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Recent studies have revealed that stony corals create their extracellular skeletons via
biologically controlled calcification, in which amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC), regarded …

Non-invasive estimation of coral polyp volume and surface area using optical coherence tomography

JS Jaffe, S Schull, M Kühl… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The surface area (SA) and three-dimensional (3D) morphology of reef-building corals are
central to their physiology. A challenge for the estimation of coral SA has been to meet the …

Cellular adaptations leading to coral fragment attachment on artificial substrates in Acropora millepora (Am-CAM)

BM Lewis, DS Suggett, PJ Prentis, LD Nothdurft - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Reproductive propagation by asexual fragmentation in the reef-building coral Acropora
millepora depends on (1) successful attachment to the reef substrate through modification of …

Spatiotemporal dynamics of coral polyps on a fluidic platform

S Li, LM Roger, J Klein-Seetharaman, NA Lewinski… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
Reef-building corals are inherently sessile organisms. However, motion is an important
behavioral trait of coral polyps, which plays an essential role in feeding, competition …

Data-driven discovery of spatiotemporal coherent patterns in pulsating soft coral tentacle motion with dynamic mode decomposition

S Li, LM Roger, J Klein-Seetharaman, LJ Cowen… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Tentacles on soft corals exhibit intriguing spatiotemporal dynamics of motions, which may
benefit their survival and fitness. Despite their significance, studies of their quantitative …

Digital image processing to detect subtle motion in stony coral

S Li, LM Roger, L Kumar, NA Lewinski… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Coral reef ecosystems support significant biological activities and harbor huge diversity, but
they are facing a severe crisis driven by anthropogenic activities and climate change. An …

Acropora—the most-studied coral genus

EE Ball, DC Hayward, TCL Bridge… - Handbook of Marine …, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
Over the last 2 million years, Acropora (the staghorn or elkhorn corals) has become the
dominant genus of reef-building corals throughout the Indo-Pacific. Like other coral genera …