Many ecosystems around the world are rapidly deteriorating due to both local and global
pressures, and perhaps none so precipitously as coral reefs. Management of coral reefs …

Phenotypic plasticity can serve as a step** stone towards adaptation. Recently, studies
have shown that gene expression contributes to emergent stress responses such as thermal …

Local adaptation is ubiquitous, but the molecular mechanisms that give rise to this
ecological phenomenon remain largely unknown. A year-long reciprocal transplant of …

Chlorophyll a fluorescence is increasingly being used as a rapid, non-invasive, sensitive
and convenient indicator of photosynthetic performance in marine autotrophs. This review …

Recent evidence suggests that corals can acclimatize or adapt to local stress factors through
differential regulation of their gene expression. Profiling gene expression in corals from …

Reef-building corals are critically important species that are threatened by anthropogenic
stresses including climate change. In attempts to understand corals' responses to stress and …

Loss of endosymbiotic algae (“bleaching”) under heat stress has become a major problem
for reef-building corals worldwide. To identify genes that might be involved in triggering or …

Background Model-based analysis of data from quantitative reverse-transcription PCR (qRT-
PCR) is potentially more powerful and versatile than traditional methods. Yet existing model …

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 …

Reef-building corals form bio-diverse marine ecosystems of high societal and economic
value, but are in significant decline globally due, in part, to rapid climatic changes. As …