[Coral-List] transmissible tumors in Hydra, mysid shrimp can smell their way home

Douglas Fenner douglasfennertassi at gmail.com
Wed Sep 18 23:19:34 UTC 2024


'Immortal' creatures may reveal clues to contagious cancers

https://www.science.org/content/article/immortal-creatures-may-reveal-clues-contagious-cancers

De novo evolution of transmissible tumors in *Hydra*

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rspb.2024.1636

(*Hydra* is related to "fire corals", *Millepora*.  *Hydra* might be models
for coral polyps.  But these are soft tissue tumors, unlike skeletal
"growth anomalies" in corals.)

In the dark ocean, these tiny creatures can smell their way home

https://www.science.org/content/article/dark-ocean-these-tiny-creatures-can-smell-their-way-home

(mysid shrimp are present on coral reefs)

Circadian migrations of cave-dwelling crustaceans guided by their home
chemical seascape


https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2024.1448616/full

Cheers, Doug

-- 
Douglas Fenner
Coral Reef Consulting
Subcontractor to Lynker Corporation
PO Box 997390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799-6298  USA


“The ultimate question, I believe, is not whether mankind can afford to
leave a few places on our planet in near-natural conditions.  Rather, can
we afford not to?”   CRC Sheppard, 2024. The Chagos Archipelago, a
biological biography.  CRC Press.


Europe's heat-related deaths (over 47,000 people in 2023)


https://www.science.org/content/article/news-glance-europe-s-heat-related-deaths-antarctic-vegetation-and-stonehenge-s-faraway


Fenner, D. 2023. Corals of Hawai’i, 2nd edition.  Mutual Publishing,
Honolulu, and Maui Ocean Center.  440 pp.  (includes 167 page section on
coral biology and coral reef ecology)

https://mauioceancenter.com/shop/



Sheppard, C., Fenner, D., Sheppard, A.  2017.  Corals of Chagos.
http://chagosinformationportal.org/corals


Fenner, D.  2020.  Can we save coral reefs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SM8bEm3ocI&t=76s


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