Meandrina


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Me`an`dri´na


n. 1. (Zool.) A genus of corals with meandering grooves and ridges, including the brain corals.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Bahia Culebra ha sido la localidad de mayor estudio de esta region, y en ella se describieron la presencia de especies poco comunes de coral como Cycloseris curvata, Leptoseris papyracea y Pocillopora meandrina (Jimenez, 2001a; Cortes, & Jimenez, 2003; Cortes, Jimenez, Fonseca, & Alvarado, 2010).
When conservation can keep up with development's pace: Health status of coral ecosystems in the North Pacific of Costa Rica/Cuando la conservacion no puede seguir el ritmo del desarrollo: Estado de salud de los ecosistemas coralinos del Pacifico Norte de Costa Rica
The onset of microbial associations in the coral Pocillopora meandrina. ISME J.
Induction of larval settlement in the reef coral porites astreoides by a cultivated marine roseobacter strain
She found that when juveniles of a coral species called Pocillopora meandrina were ready to attach to a reef surface, they were colonized by bacteria.
Corals' indispensable bacterial buddies: like humans, corals may be superorganisms
Habitat: los especimenes fueron recolectados sobre sustratos rocosos y sobre colonias coralinas, particularmente en formas cerebroides (Diploria spp., Meandrina spp.)
Amphinomidae and Euphrosinidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from northeastern coast of Venezuela/Amphinomidae y Euphrosinidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) de la costa nororiental de Venezuela
La Bahia posee relictos coralinos de poca extension, dentro de los cuales se encuentran las siguientes especies: Porites porites, Agaricia spp, Meandrina meandrites, Acropora cervicornis, A.
Madurez gonadal de la ictiofauna presente en la Bahia de Cartagena, Caribe Colombiano
In other species there are no discrete individual polyps, a situation that leads to the familiar "brain coral" colony morphology (e.g., Platygira meandrina).
3 Life on the ocean bottom
Each grid consisted of 18 coral heads (6 coral heads of each of 3 coral species: Porites compressa, Pocillopora meandrina, Montipora verrucosa).
A potential mechanism for episodic recruitment of a coral reef fish
De ellas, solo dos no aparecieron en los transectos paralelos a la costa: Pocillopora meandrina (Dana 1846) y Psammocora contigua (Esper 1794), sino que se les encontro en los transectos perpendiculares, y en las revisiones del arrecife.
Estructura comunitaria de corales zooxantelados (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) en el arrecife coralino de Carrizales, Pacifico Mexicano
Similar phylogenetic clades of bacteria were detected in 16S rRNA gene sequence clone libraries from multiple larval specimens of the Caribbean coral Porites astreoides (Sharp et al., 2012) and in the Pacific coral Pocillopora meandrina (Apprill et al., 2009), suggesting that some groups of bacteria are common across different coral species.
Multi-partner interactions in corals in the face of climate change