The biogeography of tropical reef fishes: endemism and provinciality through time

PF Cowman, V Parravicini, M Kulbicki… - Biological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The largest marine biodiversity hotspot straddles the I ndian and P acific O ceans, driven by
taxa associated with tropical coral reefs. Centred on the I ndo‐A ustralian A rchipelago (IAA) …

Comparative phylogeography of the ocean planet

BW Bowen, MR Gaither, JD DiBattista… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding how geography, oceanography, and climate have ultimately shaped marine
biodiversity requires aligning the distributions of genetic diversity across multiple taxa. Here …

On the origin of endemic species in the Red Sea

JD DiBattista, J Howard Choat… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The geological and palaeo‐climatic forces that produced the unique biodiversity in the
Red Sea are a subject of vigorous debate. Here, we review evidence for and against the …

[HTML][HTML] Coral reefs of the Red Sea—Challenges and potential solutions

M Fine, M Cinar, CR Voolstra, A Safa… - Regional Studies in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Red Sea is a unique body of water, hosting some of the most productive and
diverse coral reefs. Human populations along coasts of the Red Sea were initially sparse …

Assessing the utility of eDNA as a tool to survey reef-fish communities in the Red Sea

JD DiBattista, DJ Coker, TH Sinclair-Taylor, M Stat… - Coral Reefs, 2017 - Springer
Relatively small volumes of water may contain sufficient environmental DNA (eDNA) to
detect target aquatic organisms via genetic sequencing. We therefore assessed the utility of …

[ΒΙΒΛΙΟ][B] The Red Sea: environmental gradients shape a natural laboratory in a nascent ocean

This chapter introduces the environmental gradients that characterize the broader Red Sea
habitat. The Red Sea is formed by an actively spreading rift and notably has only one natural …

Beyond the visual: using metabarcoding to characterize the hidden reef cryptobiome

S Carvalho, E Aylagas, R Villalobos… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In an era of coral reef degradation, our knowledge of ecological patterns in reefs is biased
towards large conspicuous organisms. The majority of biodiversity, however, inhabits small …

Cross-shelf investigation of coral reef cryptic benthic organisms reveals diversity patterns of the hidden majority

JK Pearman, M Leray, R Villalobos, RJ Machida… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Coral reefs harbor diverse assemblages of organisms yet the majority of this diversity is
hidden within the three dimensional structure of the reef and neglected using standard …

Environmental latitudinal gradients and host‐specificity shape Symbiodiniaceae distribution in Red Sea Porites corals

TI Terraneo, M Fusi, BCC Hume… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The aim of the study was to assess the diversity of algal symbionts of the family
Symbiodiniaceae associated with the coral genus Porites in the Red Sea, and to test for host …