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sea fan

[′sē ‚fan]
(geology)
(invertebrate zoology)
A form of horny coral that branches like a fan.
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All Symbiodinium isolated from sea fans sampled at Pickles Reef and Eastern Sambo were within clade B, regardless of sea fan health or sample site.
You'll find corals and lots of sea fans the more vivid their purple color, the more recent their exit from the sea.
She found that the fungus collected from the dust would cause disease in sea fans. Weir notes that not all strains of that fungus will sicken those corals.
Patients in the early stages of proliferative retinopathy, that is to say, stages 1 and 2, do not require treatment as studies have shown that treatment of the ischaemic retina does not appear to prevent the formation of sea fans, and many patients do not develop sea fans or its complications.
Pape et al., "Methane fluxes and carbonate deposits at a cold seep area of the Central Nile Deep Sea Fan, Eastern Mediterranean Sea," Marine Geology, vol.
24075-001), 7 specimens (2 males, 19.4-20.2 mm SL & 5 females, 16.8-18.7 mm SL), Australia, Qld., Lizard Island, 14[degrees]42' S, 145[degrees]27' E, drop-off in 18 m, midway between South and Bird Islands, from sea fan, H.
Nagelkerken, "Status of aspergillosis and sea fan populations in Curasao ten years after the 1995 Caribbean epizootic," Revista de Biologia Tropical, vol.
Sea fan monitoring: Three transects (10x1m) were haphazardly placed at each study site between 3-5m depth.
modiolaeformis upon CHEMECOLIs that were deployed for only a period of 10 days in the central pockmark within the Nile Deep Sea Fan in 2006 (Gaudron et al., 2010), where little sulfide emission was recorded (Le Bris et al., 2008).
As part of the research, University of Liverpool researchers, in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam and Petrobras, the national oil company of Brazil, analyzed sedimentary material taken from two boreholes near the mouth of the river to calculate the age of the Amazon river and the Amazon deep sea fan.
The fungus Aspergillus sydowii, which has been isolated in African dust, has been determined to cause sea fan disease in coral reefs throughout the Caribbean.
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