The widespread assumption that COI and other mitochondrial genes will be ineffective DNA
barcodes for anthozoan cnidarians has not been well tested for most anthozoans other than …

Application of mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) as antifouling/antibacterial carriers
is limited and specifically with a dual synergetic effect. In the present work, MSNs modified …

For octocorals, sexual reproductive processes are fundamental to maintaining populations
and influencing macroevolutionary processes. While ecological data on octocorals have …

The diet of Dendronephthya hemprichi and three other abundant soft corals in the northern
Red Sea consists mainly of phytoplankton, a food source so far unknown for cnidarians. We …

… from the southern Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan (Benayahu 1995, 2002) enabled us to compare
… described from the southern Ryukyu Archipelago (Benayahu 2002), was also recorded in …

Six heterocycles, bengamide A [I], bengamide B [2], cyc\cg\.-trans-(4-hydroxyprolinyl)-L-phenylalanine)[4],
the functionalized nonene lactone 5, the novel digonazole [6], and cyclo (L-…

Mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs), which comprise the light-dependent communities of
corals and other organisms found at depths between 30 and ~150 m, have become a topic …

Biological invasions pose a great threat to the integrity of natural communities. Some invasive
species demonstrate a population explosion shortly after arrival while in other cases a …

A zooxanthellae-free soft coral from the Red Sea feeds almost exclusively on phytoplankton,
a mode of nutrition so far unknown for corals. Herbivory was also found in three other …

Background Our ability to investigate processes shaping the evolutionary diversification of
corals (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) is limited by a lack of understanding of species boundaries. …