The flourishing and vulnerabilities of zoantharians on Southwestern Atlantic reefs

MO Soares, MV Kitahara, MEA Santos… - Marine Environmental …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Abstract In the Southwestern Atlantic reefs (SWA), some species of massive scleractinians
and zoantharians are adapted to turbid waters, periodic desiccation, and sediment …

Populations of a widespread hexacoral have trophic plasticity and flexible syntrophic interactions across the Indo-Pacific Ocean

MEA Santos, DM Baker, IE Conti-Jerpe, JD Reimer - Coral Reefs, 2021‏ - Springer
Benthic cnidarians are suspension feeders that ingest items ranging from particulate organic
matter to macrozooplankton. Additionally, many species receive photosynthetic products …

Effects of temperature, salinity, and depth on Symbiodiniaceae lineages hosted by Palythoa tuberculosa near a river mouth

HB Wee, Y Kobayashi, JD Reimer - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2021‏ - int-res.com
The diversity of symbiotic dinoflagellate Symbiodiniaceae hosted by anthozoans is known to
be driven by the environment where the hosts are found. This study examined how …

Diversity of Saint Helena Island and zoogeography of zoantharians in the Atlantic Ocean: Jigsaw falling into place

MEA Santos, P Wirtz, J Montenegro, H Kise… - Systematics and …, 2019‏ - Taylor & Francis
Diversity surveys in isolated sites, such as oceanic islands, provide biogeographic data that
can improve our analyses and knowledge of evolutionary processes in the oceans …

Zoantharian endosymbiont community dynamics during a stress event

Y Fujiwara, I Kawamura, JD Reimer… - Frontiers in …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Coral reefs are complex ecosystems composed of many interacting species. One
ecologically important group consists of zoantharians, which are closely related to reef …

Phylogenomics of Palythoa (Hexacorallia: Zoantharia): probing species boundaries in a globally distributed genus

A Dudoit, MEA Santos, JD Reimer, RJ Toonen - Coral Reefs, 2022‏ - Springer
Abstract Zoantharians (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia: Zoantharia) of the genus Palythoa are
ubiquitous species that occupy reef habitats in every tropical ocean. Disagreements among …

Coral microbiomes from the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific oceans have the same alpha diversity but different composition

MEA Santos, JD Reimer, B Kiriukhin, HB Wee… - bioRxiv, 2024‏ - biorxiv.org
Corals are early-branching animals highly reliant on diverse symbionts for growth and
reproduction. Most coral groups, including stony corals and hydrocorals, exhibit deep …

Symbiodiniaceae diversity of Palythoa tuberculosa in the central and southern Red Sea influenced by environmental factors

HB Wee, ML Berumen, T Ravasi, JD Reimer - Coral Reefs, 2020‏ - Springer
Sea surface temperatures (SST) and chlorophyll a concentrations (Chl a) in the southern
Red Sea have wide variations based on distance from the coast. To understand how these …

Molecular identification of zoantharians from around Hormuz, Qeshm and Kish islands, the Persian Gulf

AN Koupaei, PG Mostafavi, JF Mehrabadi… - Regional Studies in …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Zoantharians have an important ecological role in marine ecosystems. However, only a few
studies have been conducted on the zoantharians of the Persian Gulf (PG). In the current …

Oh the Places Youʻll Go: Population Genetics and Phylogeographic Insights in Widely Distributed Marine Taxa

A Dudoit - 2022‏ - search.proquest.com
Coral reef environments are some of the most diverse and productive ecosystems on this
planet, providing cultural, economic, and ecological value. Although highly diverse, coral …