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Tag: Octocoral

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Friday Freak 10/16/09 – Gersemia juliepackardae

Kevin Zelnio October 16, 2009 CaliforniaCnidariaCoralGersemia juliepackardaeJulie PackardMontereyOctocoralPackard FoundationSoft Coralsponge

TGIF IS DEAD LONG LIVE TGIF! Craig and I are making some changes around these parts. You’ll notice them soon enough. One change starts now.…

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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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Conservation & Environment Education Scientist!

Announcing La Defense

Peter Etnoyer July 13, 2009 dissertation defenseGulf of MexicoHarte Research InstituteOctocoralPeter EtnoyerTAMU-CC

This went public today over the TAMU-CC listserves, the first attempt to tie all my deep-sea coral research from the last three years together into…

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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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Dissertation emancipation

Peter Etnoyer July 6, 2009 Gulf of MexicoOctocoralph.d.TAMU-CC

When the Graduate Student Handbook says PhD candidates will be submitting a book-length manuscript, they’re not kidding. Thursday I turned over my draft dissertation –…

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Coral Organisms Reviews

Seahorses: nice backdrops for octocorals

Peter Etnoyer February 12, 2009 coral reefindonesiakidsNational GeographicOctocoralred seascuba divingseahorsevideo

It’s going to be much easier to convince people Sea Fans are Super Cool now that National Geographic photographers trained their lens on new species…

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Coral Organisms

Deep-corals provide habitat for numerous associated species

Peter Etnoyer May 2, 2008 AnthozoaCatsharkCoralFish NurserygorgonianHabitatLopheliaNicheOctocoralOculinaPlumarellaPrimnoaRockfishScleractinia

The biodiversity of Lophelia pertusa bioherms in the North Atlantic rivals the diversity of a shallow water tropical reef. More than 800 associated species have been documented in association.

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