A coral spawning calendar for Sesoko Station, Okinawa, Japan

Baird, Andrew H.; Edwards, Alasdair J.; Guest, James R.; Harii, Saki; Hatta, Masayuki; Lachs, Liam; Mera, Hanaka; Sinniger, Frédéric; Abrego, David; Ben-Zvi, Or; Bronstein, Omri; Cabaitan, Patrick C.; Cumbo, Vivian R.; Eyal, Gal; Eyal-Shaham, Lee; Feldman, Bar; Figueiredo, Joana; Flot, Jean-François; Grinblat, Mila; Heyward, Andrew; Hidaka, Michio; Hirose, Mamiko; Iguchi, Akira; Isomura, Naoko; Kinzie, Robert A.; Kitanobo, Seiya; Kuba, Alyson; Levy, Oren; Loya, Yossi; Mezaki, Takuma; Mohamed, Amin R.; Morita, Masaya; Nojima, Satoshi; Nozawa, Yoko; Prasetia, Rian; Puill-Stephan, Eneour; Ramírez‐Portilla, Catalina; Rapuano, Hanna; Rosenberg, Yaeli; Sakai, Yusuke; Sakai, Kazuhiko; Shlesinger, Tom; Terraneo, Tullia Isotta; Yakovleva, I. M.; Yamamoto, Hiromi; Yamazato, K.

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“…Multiple studies indicate recruitment of Pocilloporidae peaks between December - April each year (Gleason 1996; Adjeroud et al 2007; Edmunds et al 2010). This broad window and the documentation that Pocillopora verrucosa (morphologically identified) spawns in the new moon in all other locations reported to date (Shlesinger and Loya 1985; Kinzie 1993; Kruger and Schleyer 1998; Hirose et al 2000, 2001; Bouwmeester et al 2011, 2021; Baird et al 2022) indicates additional work remains in the area of species-specific Pocillopora spp . gametogenesis, spawning, development, and recruitment in French Polynesia.…”

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“…This information supports a synchronization of Pocillopora spp . spawning of ∼45-180 minutes after sunrise between different locations around the world, such as Australia (∼45 minutes after sunrise (Schmidt-Roach et al 2012)), Okinawa, Japan (∼95 to 120 minutes after sunrise (Kinzie 1993; Hirose et al 2000, 2001; Baird et al 2022)), Hawai□i (∼120 minutes after sunrise (Schmidt-Roach et al 2014)), and the Red Sea (∼180 minutes after sunrise (Bouwmeester et al 2011, 2021)). Split-spawning and species-specific windows are both possible in Moorea.…”

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“…The presence of Pocilloporid species diversity in Moorea, including P. meandrina, P. April each year (Gleason 1996;Adjeroud et al 2007;Edmunds et al 2010). This broad window and the documentation that Pocillopora verrucosa (morphologically identified) spawns in the new moon in all other locations reported to date (Shlesinger and Loya 1985;Kinzie 1993;Kruger and Schleyer 1998;Hirose et al 2000Hirose et al , 2001Bouwmeester et al 2011Bouwmeester et al , 2021Baird et al 2022) (Bouwmeester et al 2011(Bouwmeester et al , 2021). Split-spawning and species-specific windows are both possible in Moorea.…”

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“…While not all past studies conducted genetic species identification, there are reports of spawning near the full moon for P. meandrina in Australia (Schmidt-Roach et al 2012), Hawai i (Apprill et al 2009;Schmidt-Roach et al 2014) and for P. grandis in Japan (Kinzie 1993;Hirose et al 2000Hirose et al , 2001. In contrast, observations of P. verrucosa spawning have been made during the new moon in the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia, Sudan (Bouwmeester et al 2011(Bouwmeester et al , 2021, and Eilat (Shlesinger and Loya 1985), as well as in South Africa (Kruger and Schleyer 1998) and in Japan (Kinzie 1993;Hirose et al 2000Hirose et al , 2001Baird et al 2022). In light of this, we monitored Pocillopora spp.…”

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Daytime broadcast spawning in crypticPocilloporaspecies at Mo’orea, French Polynesia

Harnay,

Turner,

Burgess

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Pocilloporaare abundant branching corals that create 3-dimensional reef structure. In French Polynesia, when corals were decimated by crown-of-thorns, bleaching, and a cyclone between 2007-2010,Pocilloporarecruitment primarily drove recovery by 2016, yet spawning times are undocumented. To address this, we surveyedPocilloporain Moorea between September 2022-January 2023. We documented split-spawning around the full moons, with one colony spawning November 10th (06:32, full moon+3days) and reef-wide spawning December 9th (06:16-06:32; full moon+2days) and December 10th (06:21-06:35; full moon+3days). Molecular analysis (n=16) identified 100% asP. meandrina, with 13 as Haplotype 1a and 3 as Haplotype 8a, suggestingP. verrucosa, P. grandis, and Haplotype 10 spawn on the new moon or in later months. These observations provide initial documentation ofPocilloporaspawning in Moorea (to our knowledge), expanding on indigenous knowledge and increasing capacity to studyPocilloporareproduction, connectivity, and adaptation.

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Daytime broadcast spawning in crypticPocilloporaspecies at Mo’orea, French Polynesia

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“…For example, failure to acclimatize to a simulated consecutive bleaching event was linked to low basal energy reserves, which in turn was attributed to the peak in temperatures coinciding with end of the reproductive season ( Grottoli et al, 2014 ; Schoepf et al, 2015 ). Acropora corals at our study site generally spawn synchronously in June, a month before the temperatures begin to rise ( Baird et al, 2022 ; Singh et al, 2022 ). Although we do not know if this is enough time for Acropora corals to recover their basal energy reserves after reproduction, the reproductive period does not overlap with increased heat stress at our study site.…”

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Short-term improvement of heat tolerance in naturally growing Acropora corals in Okinawa

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Sakai

Ishida‐Castañeda

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Mass bleaching and subsequent mortality of reef corals by heat stress has increased globally since the late 20th century, due to global warming. Some experimental studies have reported that corals may increase heat tolerance for short periods, but only a few such studies have monitored naturally-growing colonies. Therefore, we monitored the survival, growth, and bleaching status of Acropora corals in fixed plots by distinguishing individual colonies on a heat-sensitive reef flat in Okinawa, Japan. The level of heat stress, assessed by the modified version of degree heating week duration in July and August, when the seawater temperature was the highest, was minimally but significantly higher in 2017 than in 2016; however, the same colonies exhibited less bleaching and mortality in 2017 than in 2016. Another study conducted at the same site showed that the dominant unicellular endosymbiotic algal species did not change before and after the 2016 bleaching, indicating that shifting and switching of the Symbiodiniaceae community did not contribute to improved heat tolerance. Colonies that suffered from partial mortality in 2016 were completely bleached at higher rates in 2017 than those without partial mortality in 2016. The present results suggest that either genetic or epigenetic changes in coral hosts and/or algal symbionts, or the shifting or switching of microbes other than endosymbionts, may have improved coral holobiont heat tolerance.

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Conservation of Protein Kinase A Substrates in the Cnidarian Coral Spermatozoa Among Animals and Their Molecular Evolution

Morita,

Hanahara,

Teramoto

et al. 2024

J Mol Evol

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A coral spawning calendar for Sesoko Station, Okinawa, Japan

Cited by 17 publications

References 22 publications

Daytime broadcast spawning in crypticPocilloporaspecies at Mo’orea, French Polynesia

Daytime broadcast spawning in crypticPocilloporaspecies at Mo’orea, French Polynesia

Short-term improvement of heat tolerance in naturally growing Acropora corals in Okinawa

Conservation of Protein Kinase A Substrates in the Cnidarian Coral Spermatozoa Among Animals and Their Molecular Evolution

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