The mechanism of calcification and its relation to photosynthesis and respiration in the scleractinian coral Galaxea fascicularis

By FFuad A. Al-Horani, S. Al-Moghrabi, D. de Beer. 2003

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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Ecology, Materials Chemistry

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Nutritional status and metabolism of the coral Stylophora subseriata along a eutrophication gradient in Spermonde Archipelago (Indonesia) (2011, background): “The host respires a large portion of photosynthates, and the acquired ATP is used inter alia for G (Al-Horani et al. 2003; Allemand et al. 2004) and mucus production (Brown and Bythell 2005), while the other portion provides compounds for the synthesis of cellular proteins, lipids (Muscatine and…”
Effects of changing seawater temperature on photosynthesis and calcification in the scleractinian coral Galaxea fascicularis , measured with O 2 , Ca 2+ and pH microsensors (2005, methodology): “In addition, much of the CO2 released by respiration is fixed by photosynthesis and thereby the pH is maintained higher in light than in dark (Al-Horani et al., 2003b).”
A nonlinear calcification response to CO2-induced ocean acidification by the coral Oculina arbuscula (2010, background): “If corals indeed elevate XA of the calcifying medium by elevating its pH, there are a number of ways they could achieve this, including via Ca-proton ATPase, direct proton pumping, transcellular proton-solute shuttling, and CO2 utilization via zooxanthellate photosynthesis (McConnaughey and Whelan 1”
Acute survivorship of the deep-sea coral Lophelia pertusa from the Gulf of Mexico under acidification, warming, and deoxygenation (2014, background): “…of L. pertusa are highly variable (reviewed in Roberts et al., 2009), and are typically much slower than zooxanthellate corals due to the lack of photosynthetic input to calcification (Al-Horani et al., 2003, but see Orejas et al., 2011) and temperature differences of their natural environments.”
Characterization and role of carbonic anhydrase in the calcification process of the azooxanthellate coral Tubastrea aurea (2007, background): “2. If intracellular CO2 is the form of DIC used at the site of calcification, then the extracellular organic matrix-linked CA may help in converting this CO2, which diffuses from the tissue to the skeletogenic fluid due to the probable high pH of this calcifying region (Furla et al. 2000; Al-Horani”
The Environment Recording Unit in coral skeletons – a synthesis of structural and chemical evidences for a biochemically driven, stepping-growth process in fibres (2005, background): “The first pH measurement at the in- terface between the basal ectoderm and the growing surface of a coral skeleton was only attempted in 2003 (Al-Horani et al., 2003).”
Acclimation to ocean acidification during long‐term CO2 exposure in the cold‐water coral Lophelia pertusa (2012, background): “…Lophelia pertusa under present-day pCO2 levels Azooxanthellate corals are generally considered to have low growth rates due to the absence of calcification- enhancing photosynthetic activity by symbiotic algae (Goreau, 1959; Pearse & Muscatine, 1971; Allemand et al., 1998; Al-Horani et al., 2003).”
Calcification in bleached and unbleached Montastraea faveolata: evaluating the role of oxygen and glycerol (2010, background): “In corals, calcium ion transport involves at least one transcellular pathway (Al-Horani et al. 2003).”
Physiological responses of the calcifying rhodophyte, Corallina officinalis (L.), to future CO2 levels (2012, background): “…has been shown to play a role in the calciWcation process of many organisms, particularly corals, by regulating the internal and external cellular speciation of dissolved inorganic carbon (Kingsley and Watabe 1987; Nimer et al. 1994; Al-Horani et al. 2003; Rahman et al. 2007; Tambutté et al. 2007).”