Exposure to solar radiation increases damage to both host tissues and algal symbionts of corals during thermal stress

By Michael Lesser, Julianne H. Farrell. Coral reefs, 2004

456 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Oceanography

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In Ecology

1. Michael Lesser
2. Mark E. Warner
3. David John Suggett
4. O. Hoegh‐Guldberg
5. Ruth D. Gates
6. W. Fitt
7. A. Baker
8. A. Grottoli

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Michael Lesser
2. Mark E. Warner
3. V. Weis
4. O. Hoegh‐Guldberg
5. David John Suggett
6. N. R. Baker
7. W. Fitt
8. Todd C. LaJeunesse

In Oceanography

1. Mark E. Warner
2. Michael Lesser
3. David John Suggett
4. Ruth D. Gates
5. W. Fitt
6. O. Hoegh‐Guldberg
7. S. Hennige
8. A. Baker

Citations in the corpus

• Is photoinhibition of zooxanthellae photosynthesis the primary cause of thermal bleaching in corals? (2005, background): “Under excess light conditions, D1 content has been found to decrease in coral zooxanthellae (Warner et al., 1999; Lesser & Farrell, 2004).”
• Penetration of UV-visible solar radiation in the global oceans: Insights from ocean color remote sensing (2013, methodology): “…photoreaction rates of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in the water column [Kieber et al., 1990; Moran and Zepp, 1997], and to under- stand coral bleaching in optically shallow waters [Dunne and Brown, 1996; Lesser and Farrell, 2004; Shick et al., 1996; Sinha and H€ader, 2002; Zepp et al., 2008].”
• PSII photoinhibition and photorepair in Symbiodinium (Pyrrhophyta) differs between thermally tolerant and sensitive phylotypes (2010, background): “This process is also observed when Symbiodinium is heat-stressed (e.g. Lesser & Farrell 2004, Tchernov et al. 2004, Robison & Warner 2006, Suggett et al. 2008).”
• Transcriptomic responses to heat stress and bleaching in the elkhorn coral Acropora palmata (2010, background): “This protein was previously shown to increase in expression during thermal and light stress (Downs et al. 2000, Lesser & Farrell 2004).”
• The ecological distribution and comparative photobiology of symbiotic dinoflagellates from reef corals in Belize: Potential implications for coral bleaching (2006, background): “The ecological success of reef-building corals is reliant on the symbiotic relationship that these organisms have with a diverse group of dinoflagellates within the genus Symbiodinium, commonly referred to as zooxanthellae.”
• Photobiology of Symbiodinium revisited: bio-physical and bio-optical signatures (2009, background): “At present, the understanding of coral–Symbiodinium specificity and the benefits to a host of being adapted to harbour certain algal types that will inevitably exhibit different photobiology is poor (Lesser and Farrell 2004; Suggett et al. 2008).”
• Cellular mechanisms of Cnidarian bleaching: stress causes the collapse of symbiosis (2008, background): “There is evidence in corals that p53 protein levels increase in thermally stressed corals (Lesser and Farrell, 2004).”
• Response of two species of Indo-Pacific corals, Porites cylindrica and Stylophora pistillata, to short-term thermal stress: The host does matter in determining the tolerance of corals to bleaching (2009, methodology): “The protocol for extraction, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), and western blotting is described in Lesser and Farrell (2004).”