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Category: Coral

Coral New Species

Deep-sea crinoid discovered in real time

Peter Etnoyer July 30, 2009 Crinoiddeep-sea coralLiving FossilNew Species

If you didn’t get a chance to follow along with the Bioluminescence 2009 Expedition last week, you can catch up online at the NOAA Ocean…

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Biology Coral Organisms Pictures and Movies

Friday Picture: Have your coral and eat it, too?

Peter Etnoyer July 17, 2009 deep-sea coralechinodermOctocoralPredationsea fan

People accept the idea of echinoderm predation on shallow reef building corals. The voracious Crown of Thorns seastar Acanthaster planci is a familiar coral antagonist…

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Adaptations Coral Mating & Reproduction New Research Organisms Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

Coral and Brittle Stars, Together Forever

Dr. M July 9, 2009 brittle starCoralEchinodermatamarriagemoochingmutualismOctocoralsettlementSettlement Cuesuspension feeding

I mean it, FOREVER!  No paper out yet but the abstract has sufficiently enticed me.  Mosher and Watling report that the species Phiocreas oedipus, an…

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Coral Expeditions Seamount

Ready for another expedition?

Peter Etnoyer June 25, 2009 CenSeamDi TraceyGraveyardNIWA

Its summertime folks, and it seems like everyone is either heading out to sea, or returning from a recent expedition. If not that, its a…

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Coral Expeditions Pictures and Movies

Friday deep-sea picture: Deepworkers find Primnoa

Peter Etnoyer June 19, 2009 Finding Coral ExpeditionGreg WorkmanPrimnoaSheila McKenna

Greg Workman reports in today’s dispatch “A Great Day at the Office” that after a few days searching, the Finding Coral Expedition has … found…

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Coral Microbes New Research

Bacterial assemblages in deep Lophelia coral

Peter Etnoyer April 28, 2009

DSN friend and colleague Dr. Christina Kellogg published a new paper this month characterizing the bacterial assemblages of deep Lophelia pertusa coral in the Gulf…

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Conservation & Environment Coral Fish Organisms

Finding Nemo by DNA parentage analysis

Peter Etnoyer April 14, 2009 AnemoneclownfishGeoff JonesKimbe BayKimbe Islandlarval dispersalMarine Protected AreaMPA SciencePapua New GuineaSergio PlanesSimon Thorrold

Since the first observations of transoceanic dispersal in marine snails (Scheltema 1971), long distance transport for marine animals has been a kind of Holy Grail…

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Conservation & Environment Coral Organisms Pictures and Movies Vessels and Equipment

World’s oldest animal captured alive, on video

Peter Etnoyer April 6, 2009 deep seadeep-sea coralgerardiagold coralHondurasKarl Stanleystanley submarinessubmarine

Deep Sea News has been following the story of the world’s oldest living animals, the deep-sea Leiopathes black corals and Gerardia gold corals from 300m…

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Coral Organisms Scientist!

Deep-corals are world’s oldest animal

Peter Etnoyer March 25, 2009

It hasn’t been too long since Brendan Roark first reported that deep-sea corals off Hawaii are clocking in as the world’s oldest animal. At four…

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Conservation & Environment Coral Expeditions New Research Open Access Organisms Seamount

Seamount Life Is Unique Just Not In the Way We Thought

Dr. M February 19, 2009 conservationCoralInvertebrateOpen Accessplos oneSeamountsponge

About a month ago, I published my first paper at PLoS One. I believed an open access journal was the most appropriate place for the…

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