Differences in photosynthetic activity between coral sections infested and not infested by boring spionid polychaetes

Jeffrey Wielgus; Oren Levy

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Differences in photosynthetic activity between coral sections infested and not infested by boring spionid polychaetes

Jeffrey Wielgus, Oren Levy

The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences - at Bar-Ilan University

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A SCUBA-based fast repetition rate fluorometer (FRRF) was used to study differences in the functional absorption cross-section of Photosystem II (σ_PSII) between areas of a coral colony of Astreopora myriophthalma that were infested with spionid polychaetes vs areas lacking worms. The mean value of σ_PSII in infested areas (mean±SD=347.62±30.67 Å²) was significantly higher than in the areas that were not infested (316.32±17.49 Å²; P<0.0001). Several physiological mechanisms are discussed that may contribute to the observed differences.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	727-728
Number of pages	2
Journal	Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
Volume	86
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315406013622
State	Published - Aug 2006

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