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Coral Biology - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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Coral Biology The basic living unit of the class Anthozoa (further subdivided into subclass Hexacorallia, which includes stony corals, and subclass ...
Coral Polyp Anatomy - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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Coral Polyp Anatomy Corals, often mistaken for plants due to their flower-like appearance, are animals that generally exist in the form of colonies ...
Coral Reproduction - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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Coral Reproduction Corals, like many sessile organisms that are unable to search for compatible partners, have adapted unique reproductive strategies ...
Shallow Water Corals - NCCOS - National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
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Shallow Water Corals Coral reefs are living, three-dimensional, underwater structures that provide habitat to algae, fish, crustaceans, and other ...
Coral Ecosystem - NCCOS - National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
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Coral Ecosystems NCCOS research helps shed light on corals and their understudied communities, restoration science, the ecological role they play, and ...
Deep-Sea Corals - NCCOS - National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
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Deep-sea corals, like their warm-water cousins, are actually colonies of small animals that build a common skeleton, which grows into many shapes and ...
Microscopic Anatomy - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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Microscopic Anatomy The fundamental structure of a coral polyp is a cylindrical sac lined composed of two layers of epithelia: the surface body wall ...
Critical Research on Coral Reproduction During the Annual Spawning ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/nccos-scientists-and-partners-conduct-critical-research-on-coral-reproduction-during-the-annual-spawning-event-of-four-caribbean-coral-species/
This year the group worked to study coral spawning in captivity, which the facilities at both UNCW and TFA achieved by creating conditions in aquaria ...
NOAA, USGS Investigate Mesophotic Coral Biology to Support Restoration
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The corals can also reproduce sexually, but in order to fully understand coral reproductive modes and processes, scientists need to look more closely ...
Coral Skeleton - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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Coral Skeleton Coral skeleton is comprised of aragonite, a crystal form of calcium carbonate. The skeleton of each individual coral polyp is called ...
Diving into Deep Coral Propagation - NCCOS - National Centers for ...
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To test this approach for deep corals, scientists from Temple University brought corals up from a depth of 1,500 meters, cut them into several ...
Black Band Disease - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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Black band disease (BBD) is an infectious coral disease that is globally present and affects 19 scleractinian coral species. Black band disease is ...
White Band Disease - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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White Band Disease (WBD) is a common tissue loss disease that affects the two Caribbean acroporid species Acropora cervicornis and Acropora palmata ...
Photo Identification Guides for Deep-sea Corals and Sponges Now ...
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Photographic catalog of deep-sea corals collected from the U.S. West Atlantic margin by NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer in years 2017–2019, released March ...
Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD)
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Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is a highly lethal coral disease that was first reported off the coast of Florida in 2014 and has since spread ...
Investigating the Long-term Effects of Chronic Turbidity on Two ESA ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/ksb-coral-health-and-disease-lab-completes-a-3-month-experiment-investigating-the-long-term-effects-of-chronic-turbidity-on-two-esa-listed-coral-species-2/
Fragments of the Caribbean coral Orbicella faveolata being prepared for daily imaging. A photo of each coral is taken under a fluorescent microscope ...
How do Light-dependent Mesophotic Corals Survive and Thrive under Low ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/how-do-light-dependent-mesophotic-corals-survive-and-thrive-under-low-light/
The ability of deep, light dependent mesophotic corals to grow in low-light conditions is a poorly understood realm of biology. Research, sponsored in ...
Pigmented Band Diseases - Coral Disease & Health Consortium
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Pigmented Band Diseases Black Band Disease (BBD) Black Band Disease, BBD (A-I) Black or dark reddish-brown band or mat of filamentous organisms (A) ...
Characterizing Potential Distributions of Deep-Sea Corals, Sponges, and ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/predictive-benthic-habitat-suitability-modeling-of-deep-sea-biota-on-the-us-pacific-outer-continental-shelf/
We developed spatial predictive models for deep-sea corals, sponges, and benthic macrofauna offshore of the continental U.S. West Coast. Maps and ...
NCCOS Helps Update National Database of Deep-Sea Corals and Sponges
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/nccos-helps-update-national-database-of-deep-sea-corals-and-sponges/
NOAA has released a report detailing the first major update of a deep-sea database since its online debut in 2015. The database is the most ...