Title |
Cellular Responses in Sea Fan Corals: Granular Amoebocytes React to Pathogen and Climate Stressors
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Published in |
PLOS ONE, March 2008
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DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0001811 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Laura D. Mydlarz, Sally F. Holthouse, Esther C. Peters, C. Drew Harvell |
Abstract |
Climate warming is causing environmental change making both marine and terrestrial organisms, and even humans, more susceptible to emerging diseases. Coral reefs are among the most impacted ecosystems by climate stress, and immunity of corals, the most ancient of metazoans, is poorly known. Although coral mortality due to infectious diseases and temperature-related stress is on the rise, the immune effector mechanisms that contribute to the resistance of corals to such events remain elusive. In the Caribbean sea fan corals (Anthozoa, Alcyonacea: Gorgoniidae), the cell-based immune defenses are granular acidophilic amoebocytes, which are known to be involved in wound repair and histocompatibility. |
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