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Northern Star Coral Study Could Help Protect Tropical Corals: Rhode Island Considers Naming the Local Coral as a State Emblem newswise.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newswise.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
E-Mail IMAGE: Close-up of a Northern Star Coral (Astrangia poculata) colony taken from a microscope in the laboratory at Roger Williams University, Rhode Island. view more Credit: Alicia Schickle As the Rhode Island legislature considers designating the Northern Star Coral an official state emblem, researchers are finding that studying this local creature s recovery from a laboratory-induced stressor could help better understand how to protect endangered tropical corals. A new study published today in mSystems, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology, investigates antibiotic-induced disturbance of the coral (Astrangia poculata) and shows that antibiotic exposure significantly altered the composition of the coral s mucus bacterial microbiome, but that all the treated corals recovered in two weeks in ambient seawater. ....
E-Mail IMAGE: A North Atlantic right whale photographed in Cape Cod Bay, Mass. Trauma wounds are scarred over but still very evident, showing that non-lethal entanglement can still have serious health. view more Credit: Photo: J. Durban, NOAA, and Holly Fearnbach, SR3. Permit # 17355-01 Woods Hole, Mass. (February 25, 2021) Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) along with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries have released the first broad scale synthesis of available information derived from right whale health assessment techniques. The manuscript published today in the science journal Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, reviews available tools, and current understanding of the health status and trends of individual whales and the species. The paper concludes with recommendations for additional information needs and necessary management actions to enhance the health of individual right whales. ....