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Acropora Muricata Galaxea, Journal of Coral Reef Studies (2008) Vol. 10 No. 1 Author Title Page Hiroya YAMANO More evolution 1-2 Implications for different diversity levels of Symbiodinium spp. (Dinophyceae, Suessiales) James D. REIMER 3-13 within closely related hosts: zoanthids (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia: Anthozoa) as a case study A field experiment on the microhabitat preference of algal-symbiont-bearing larger Kazuhiko FUJITA 15-25 foraminifera in a reef-crest algal turf zone, Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, Japan Sayaka KAI, Chio HAYASHI, Planula brooding and sex allocation in the coral Goniastrea aspera 27-36 Kazuhiko SAKAI Kazuo ABE Cadmium accumulation on coastal surficial sediments from Yaeyama Islands, Okinawa 37-42 Kanae MATSUSHIMA, Molecular evidence supporting predation by emerging snails on hermatypic corals in Masayuki HATTA, Masato 43 temperate areas of Japan KIYOMOTO Loss of live tissue and exposure of coral skeleton in Porites cylindrica at Shiraho, Ishigaki Kazue ASOH 45 Island, Japan Galaxea, Journal of Coral Reef Studies (2008) Vol. 10 No. 2 Author Title Page Hironobu FUKAMI Short review: molecular phylogenetic analyses of reef corals 47-55 James D. REIMER, Shusuke Distribution of zooxanthellate zoanthid species (Zoantharia: Anthozoa: Hexacorallia) in ONO, Frederic SINNIGER, 57-67 southern Japan limited by cold temperatures Junzo TSUKAHARA Eduard A. TITLYANOV, Tamara Recovery dynamics of mechanically damaged scleractinian corals of the genus Porites V. TITLYANOVA, David 69-76 under different light intensities CHAPMAN Kazuo ABE Behavior of dissolved cadmium in surface water of Urasoko Bay, Ishigaki Island, Japan 77-82 Size-independent investment allocation to regeneration and growth of the branching coral Nami OKUBO 83-87 Acropora muricata Atsushi NANAMI Aggregation of the siganid Siganus unimaculatus at Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, Japan 89 Masayuki HATTA, Kanae Presumed natural hybrids between Acropora donei and Acropora tenuis 91 MATSUSHIMA Galaxea, Journal of Coral Reef Studies (2009) Vol. 11 No. 1 Author Title Page Sylvain AGOSTINI, Yoshimi SUZUKI, Beatriz E. CASARETO, Coral symbiotic complex: Hypothesis through vitamin B12 for a new evaluation 1-11 Yoshikatsu NAKANO, Michio HIDAKA, Nesa BADRUN Go SUZUKI, Takeshi Role of post-settlement mortality in the establishment of Acropora reef slope zonation in HAYASHIBARA, Haruhiko 13-20 Ishigaki Island, Japan TOYOHARA Frederic SINNIGER, Jan The partial mitochondrial genome of Leiopathes glaberrima (Hexacorallia: Antipatharia) and 21-26 PAWLOWSKI the first report of the presence of an intron in COI in black corals Recovery of Porites cylindrica from the 2007-summer tissue loss at Shiraho, Ishigaki Island, Kazue ASOH 27-32 Japan Masayuki HATTA A hanging life of acroporids in success after COT outbreaks 33 Eiji FUJIWARA, Kanae MATSUSHIMA, Masayuki A sequential observation of basal skeleton formation in the primary polyp of Acropora 35 HATTA Yoshikatsu NAKANO Intratentacular budding in Galaxea fascicularis 37 A novel substrate (the “coral peg”) for deploying sexually propagated corals for reef Makoto OMORI, Kenji IWAO 39 restoration Galaxea, Journal of Coral Reef Studies (2009) Vol. 11 No. 2 Author Title Page Makoto TSUCHIYA Memorial address for the late Professor Kiyoshi Yamazato 47-48 Kenji KONISHI A Tribute to KIYOSHI YAMAZATO (1930-2009) 49-51 Robert VAN WOESIK Corals' prolonged struggle against unfavorable conditions 53-58 Charles BIRKELAND Important roles of natural history in ecology 59-66 Loke Ming CHOU, Thamasak YEEMIN, ABDUL RAHIM Bin Coral reef restoration in the South China Sea 67-74 Gor Yaman, Si Tuan VO, Perry ALINO, SUHARSONO The light from the darkness: Responses of zooxanthellate corals to the underwater light Zvy DUBINSKY 75-79 field Johann HOHENEGGER Functional shell geometry of symbiont-bearing benthic Foraminifera 84-89 J.E.N. VERON, Lyndon M. DEVANTIER, Emre TURAK, Alison L. GREEN, Stuart Delineating the Coral Triangle 91-100 KININMONTH, Mary STAFFORD-SMITH, Nate PETERSON Andrew H. BAIRD, Chico L. BIRREL, Terence P. HUGHES, Abbi MCDONALD, Satoshi Latitudinal variation in reproductive synchrony in Acropora assemblages: Japan vs. 101-108 NOJIMA, Cathie A. PAGE, Australia Morgan S. PRACHETT, Hideo YAMASAKI Irina M. YAKOVLEVA, Michio Survey of mycosporine-like amino acids in different morphotypes of the coral Galaxea 109-118 HIDAKA fascicularis from Okinawa, Japan Yossi LOYA, Kazuhiko SAKAI, Reproductive patterns of fungiid corals in Okinawa, Japan 119-129 Andrew HEYWARD Yoshikatsu NAKANO, Makoto TSUCHIYA, Sompop Influence of severe freshwater flooding during the rainy season on the coral community 131-138 RUNGSUPA, Kiyoshi around Khang Khao Island in the inner Gulf of Tahiland YAMAZATO Scott R. SANTOS, Junko Spatial and temporal dynamics of symbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium : Dinophyta) in TOYOSHIMA, Robert A. KINZIE 139-147 the perforate coral Montipora capitata III Makoto TSUCHIYA, Moritaka NISHIHIRA, Suree POUNG-IN, Feeding behavior of the urchin-eating urchin Salmacis sphaeroides 149-153 Surapon CHOOHABANDIT Sung Jin HWANG, Jun Im Sexual reproduction of soft coral, Scleronephthya gracillimum , (Alcyonacea: Nephtheidae) 155-167 SONG based on long-term collection from Jejudo Island, Korea Eduard A. TITLYANOV, Sergey I. KIYASHKO, Tamara V. δ13C and δ15N in tissues of reef building corals and the endolithic alga Ostreobium 169-175 TITLYANOVA, Irina M. quekettii under their symbiotic and separate existence YAKOVLEVA Calibrated radiocarbon ages of beach rock samples and late Holocene sea-level change of Kunio OMOTO 177-185 Amami Islands, southwest Japan Shallow-water asteroids, echinoids, and holothuroids at 6 sites across the tropical west John S. PEARSE 187-195 Pacific, 1988-1989 Bernard SALVAT Dominant benthic mollusks in closed atolls, French Polynesia 197-206 Thamasak YEEMIN, Chaipichit SAENGHAISUK, Makamas SUTTHACHEEP, Sittiporn Conditions of coral communities in the Gulf of Thailand: a decade after the 1998 severe 207-217 PENGSAKUN, Walaya bleaching event KLINTHONG, Kanwala SAENGMANEE Janny D. KUSEN, Hanny The present status of coral reef condition in Bunaken National Park and Manado Bay, North 219-222 TIOHO Sulawesi, Indonesia Galaxea, Journal of Coral Reef Studies (2010) Vol. 12 No. 1 Author Title Page Takashi NAKAMURA Importance of water-flow on the physiological responses of reef-building corals 1-14 Shusuke ONO, James D. 15-22 Long-term changes of infra-littoral zone zooxanthellate cnidarians in the Taisho Lava Field, REIMER, Yoko NOZAWA, and Sakurajima, Kagoshima, Japan Junzo TSUKAHARA James Davis REIMER Key to field identification of shallow water brachycnemic zoanthids (Order Zoantharia: 23-29 Suborder Brachycnemina) present in Okinawa Ryota NAKAJIMA, Asami 37-44 NAKAYAMA, Teruaki YOSHIDA, Mohd Rajuddin An evaluation of photo line-intercept transect (PLIT) method for coral reef monitoring Mohd KUSHAIRI, Bin Haji Ross OTHMAN, Tatsuki TODA Unidirectional circulation in each coelenteron compartment in a primary polyp of Acropora 45 Masayuki HATTA tenuis Kenji IWAO, Makoto OMORI, 47 Transplanted Acropora tenuis (Dana) spawned first in their life 4 years after culture from Hiroki TANIGUCHI, Minoru eggs TAMURA Md. Mahfuzur Rahman SHAH, 49 James Davis REIMER, Takeo Diversity of dinoflagellate blooms in reef flat tide pools at Okinawa, Japan HORIGUCHI, Shoichiro SUDA Kanae MATSUSHIMA, Eiji An unidentified species of acoel flatworm in the genus Waminoa associated with the coral 51 FUJIWARA, Masayuki HATTA Acropora from the field in Japan Galaxea, Journal of Coral Reef Studies (2010) Vol. 12 No. 2 Author Title Page Yehuda BENAYAHU A new genus of a soft coral of the family Xeniidae (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) from Japan 53-64 N. MARIMUTHU, J. Jerald 65-75 WILSON, and A.K. Reef status in the Mandapan group of Islands, Gulf of Mannar KUMARAGURU Kanae MATSUSHIMA, Masato 77-81 Aboral localization of responsiveness to a metamorphic neuropeptide in the planula larva of KIYOMOTO, and Masayuki Acropora tenuis HATTA Yoshikatsu NAKANO A crater formation on the colony of Porites cylindrica induced by Dendropoma maxima 83 Tsutomu TAKINO, Atsushi 85-86 WATANABE, Shunsuke Discovery of a large population of Heliopora coerulea at Akaishi Reef, Ishigaki Island, MOTOOKA, Kazuo NADAOKA, southwest Japan Nina YASUDA, and Masayoshi TAIRA M. TOKESHI, K. TANAKA Dominance of tabular Acroporid species and the abundance of echinoid grazers in high- 87 latitude coral communities of Amakusa, southwestern Japan Ryota NAKAJIMA, Asami 89-90 NAKAYAMA, Teruaki YOSHIDA, Mohd Rajuddin An evaluation of photo line-intercept transect (PLIT) method for coral reef monitoring Mohd KUSHAIRI, Bin Haji Ross OTHMAN, Tatsuki TODA, Galaxea, Journal of Coral Reef Studies (2011) Vol. 13 No. 1 Author Title Page Kenjiro OHTA, Nina YASUDA, 1-2 Satoshi NAGAI, Katsuki OKI, Observations of Culcita novaeguineae spawning events Coralie TAQUET, and Kazuo NADAOKA P. SCAPS, and J. HAAPKYLÄ Focal white spots on Porites spp. from the north Andaman Sea, Western Thailand and the 3-4 Wakatobi Marine National Park, Indonesia Javid KAVOUSI, and Hamid 5-6 Coral lesions around some Iranian Islands in the Persian Gulf REZAI Masami OBUCHI, and James 7 Does Acanthaster planci preferably prey on the reef zoanthid Palythoa tuberculosa ? Davis REIMER Bert W. HOEKSEMA, and Size-dependent dispersal by Goniopora stokesi corals at Semporna, eastern Sabah, 9-10 Zarinah WAHEED Malaysia Yumiko YARA, Kazuhiro 11-20 OSHIMA, Masahiko FUJII, Projection and uncertainty of the poleward range expansion of coral habitats in response to Hiroya YAMANO,
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