Cnidarian bleaching is a breakdown in the mutualistic symbiosis between host Cnidarians,
such as reef building corals, and their unicellular photosynthetic dinoflagellate symbionts …

Apoptosis is probably not the only form of cell death, but it is currently the only form for which
the proteins that constitute the death pathway have been characterized at the structural …

Unprecedented changes in coral reef systems have focused attention on a wide range of
stressors on local, regional, and global spatial scales but global climate change resulting in …

The declining health of coral reefs worldwide is likely to intensify in response to continued
anthropogenic disturbance from coastal development, pollution, and climate change. In …

As atmospheric levels of CO2 increase, reef-building corals are under greater stress from
both increased sea surface temperatures and declining sea water pH. To date, most studies …

During the past several decades, numerous reports from disparate geographical areas have
documented an increased frequency of “bleaching” in reef-forming corals. The …

Cnidarian bleaching results from the breakdown in the symbiosis between the host
cnidarian and its dinoflagellate symbiont. Coral bleaching in recent years has increasingly …

The intracellular coral–dinoflagellate symbiosis is the engine that underpins the success of
coral reefs, one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. However, the breakdown of …

When exposed to stress such as high seawater temperature, corals and other cnidarians
can bleach due to loss of symbiotic algae from the host tissue and/or loss of pigments from …

Caspases (cysteine‐dependent aspartyl‐specific protease) belong to a family of cysteine
proteases that mediate proteolytic events indispensable for biological phenomena such as …