Reef-building Corals

I read the first paper and found it is quite interest. Here are some interesting papers about corals.

Host pigments: potential facilitators of photosynthesis in coral symbioses, SOPHIE G. DOVE, CARLI LOVELL , MAOZ FINE, JEFFRY DECKENBACK, OVE HOEGH-GULDBERG, ROBERTO IGLESIAS-PRIETO & KENNETH R.N. ANTHONY, Plant, Cell & Environment 31(11):1523 - 1533 (2008).

Gene Expression of a Green Fluorescent Protein Homolog as a Host-Specific Biomarker of Heat Stress Within a Reef-Building Coral, C. Smith-Keune and S. Dove, Marine Biotechnology 10(2):166 (2008).

Bleaching, energetics and coral mortality risk: effects of temperature, light and sediment regime, KRN Anthony, SR Connolly & O Hoegh-Guldberg, Limnology and Oceanography 52(2): 716-726 (2007).

Coral mortality following extreme low tides and high solar radiation, KRN Anthony, A Kerswell, Marine Biology 151: 1623-1631 (2007).

The impact of coral bleaching on the pigment profile of the symbiotic alga, Symbiodinium, ALEXANDER A. VENN, MICHAEL A. WILSON, HENRY G. TRAPIDO-ROSENTHAL, BRENDAN J. KEELY & ANGELA E. DOUGLAS, Plant, Cell & Environment 29(12):2133 - 2142 (2006).

Response of holosymbiont pigments from the scleractinian coral Montipora monasteriata to short-term heat stress, Sophie Dove, Juan Carlos Ortiz, Susana Enríquez, Maoz Fine, Paul Fisher, Roberto Iglesias-Prieto, Dan Thornhill, and Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
Limnol. Oceanogr., 51(2):1149–1158 (2006).

Environmental limits to growth: physiological niche boundaries of corals along turbidity-light gradients, KRN Anthony & SR Connolly, Oecologia 141: 373-384 (2004).

Coral Reefs in a Century of Rapid Environmental Change, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Symbiosis 37(1-3):1-31 (2004).

Scleractinian corals with photoprotective host pigments are hypersensitive to thermal bleaching, Sophie Dove, Marine Ecology Progress Series 272:99-116 (2004).

Experience shapes the susceptibility of a reef coral to bleaching, B. Brown, R. Dunne, M. Goodson, A. Douglas, Coral Reefs 21(2):119-126 (July, 2002).

Kinetics of photoacclimation in corals, KRN Anthony & O Hoegh-Guldberg, Oecologia 134: 23-31 (2003).

Comparative analysis of energy allocation to tissue and skeletal growth in corals, Kenneth R. N. Anthony, Sean R. Connolly, and Bette L. Willis, Limnol. Oceanogr., 47(5), 2002, 1417–1429 (2002).

Major colour patterns of reef-building corals are due to a family of GFP-like proteins, S.G. Dove, O. Hoegh-Guldberg, and S. Ranganathan, Coral Reefs 19(3):197-204 (January, 2001).

Shifting roles of heterotrophy and autotrophy in coral energy budgets at varying turbidity, KRN Anthony & KE Fabricius, J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 252: 221-253 (2000).

Biochemistry, mutagenesis, and oligomerization of DsRed, a red fluorescent protein from coral, Geoffrey S. Baird, David A. Zacharias, and Roger Y. Tsien, PNAS 97(22):11984-11989 (October 24, 2000).

Climate change, coral bleaching and the future of the world's coral reefs, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, CSIRO Marine Freshwater Research 50:839-866 (1999).