Published Papers - Reimer James Davis

Correction to: Two new species of threadlike blood flukes (Aporocotylidae), with a molecular revision of the genera Ankistromeces Nolan & Cribb, 2004 and Phthinomita Nolan & Cribb, 2006.

Cutmore SC, Yong RQ, Reimer JD, Shirakashi S, Nolan MJ, Cribb TH

Systematic parasitology ( Systematic Parasitology )    2021.09

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Two new species of threadlike blood flukes (Aporocotylidae), with a molecular revision of the genera Ankistromeces Nolan & Cribb, 2004 and Phthinomita Nolan & Cribb, 2006.

Cutmore SC, Yong RQ, Reimer JD, Shirakashi S, Nolan MJ, Cribb TH

Systematic parasitology ( Systematic Parasitology )    2021.09 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

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Investigating Sources of Conflict in Deep Phylogenomics of Vetigastropod Snails.

Cunha TJ, Reimer JD, Giribet G

Systematic biology     2021.09 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

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Author Correction: Potential local adaptation of corals at acidified and warmed Nikko Bay, Palau.

Kurihara H, Watanabe A, Tsugi A, Mimura I, Hongo C, Kawai T, Reimer JD, Kimoto K, Gouezo M, Golbuu Y

Scientific reports ( Scientific Reports )  11 ( 1 ) 17353   2021.08

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Consensus Guidelines for Advancing Coral Holobiont Genome and Specimen Voucher Deposition

Voolstra C.R.

Frontiers in Marine Science ( Frontiers in Marine Science )  8   2021.08 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

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Downslope migration of free-living corals (Scleractinia: Fungiidae) in typhoon-exposed reef habitats at Okinawa, Japan.

Ohara T, Hoeksema BW, Wee HB, Reimer JD

Marine environmental research ( Marine Environmental Research )  170   105445   2021.08 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

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Variation on a theme: pigmentation variants and mutants of anemonefish.

Klann M, Mercader M, Carlu L, Hayashi K, Reimer JD, Laudet V

EvoDevo ( EvoDevo )  12 ( 1 ) 8   2021.06 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

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Phylogenomics, Origin, and Diversification of Anthozoans (Phylum Cnidaria).

McFadden CS, Quattrini AM, Brugler MR, Cowman PF, Dueñas LF, Kitahara MV, Paz-García DA, Reimer JD, Rodríguez E

Systematic biology ( Systematic biology )  70 ( 4 ) 635 - 647   2021.06 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

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Hexacoral-crinoid associations from the modern mesophotic zone: Ecological analogues for Palaeozoic associations

Zapalski M.K.

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology ( Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology )  572   2021.06 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

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Potential local adaptation of corals at acidified and warmed Nikko Bay, Palau.

Kurihara H, Watanabe A, Tsugi A, Mimura I, Hongo C, Kawai T, Reimer JD, Kimoto K, Gouezo M, Golbuu Y

Scientific reports ( Scientific Reports )  11 ( 1 ) 11192 - 11192   2021.05 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

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Ocean warming and acidification caused by increases of atmospheric carbon dioxide are now thought to be major threats to coral reefs on a global scale. Here we evaluated the environmental conditions and benthic community structures in semi-closed Nikko Bay at the inner reef area in Palau, which has high pCO2 and seawater temperature conditions with high zooxanthellate coral coverage. Nikko Bay is a highly sheltered system with organisms showing low connectivity with surrounding environments, making this bay a unique site for evaluating adaptation and acclimatization responses of organisms to warmed and acidified environments. Seawater pCO2/Ωarag showed strong gradation ranging from 380 to 982 µatm (Ωarag: 1.79-3.66), and benthic coverage, including soft corals and turf algae, changed along with Ωarag while hard coral coverage did not change. In contrast to previous studies, net calcification was maintained in Nikko Bay even under very low mean Ωarag (2.44). Reciprocal transplantation of the dominant coral Porites cylindrica showed that the calcification rate of corals from Nikko Bay did not change when transplanted to a reference site, while calcification of reference site corals decreased when transplanted to Nikko Bay. Corals transplanted out of their origin sites also showed the highest interactive respiration (R) and lower gross photosynthesis (Pg) to respiration (Pg:R), indicating higher energy acquirement of corals at their origin site. The results of this study give important insights about the potential local acclimatization and adaptation capacity of corals to different environmental conditions including pCO2 and temperature.

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Global diversity and distribution of Lamippidae copepods symbiotic on Octocorallia

Korzhavina O.A.

Symbiosis ( Symbiosis )  83 ( 3 ) 265 - 277   2021.04 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

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Populations of a widespread hexacoral have trophic plasticity and flexible syntrophic interactions across the Indo-Pacific Ocean

Santos M.E.A.

Coral Reefs ( Coral Reefs )  40 ( 2 ) 543 - 558   2021.04 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

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Unexpected high abundance of aragonite-forming Nanipora (Octocorallia: Helioporacea) at an acidified volcanic reef in southern Japan

Reimer J.D.

Marine Biodiversity ( Marine Biodiversity )  51 ( 1 )   2021.02 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

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Nanipora Miyazaki & Reimer, 2015 is a recently discovered genus of aragonite-skeleton producing octocorals closely related to the blue coral genus Heliopora de Blainville, 1830. Since its discovery, Nanipora has been reported from coral reefs in Okinawa, Japan, and Thailand, and from seagrass beds in the northern South China Sea. However, it remains little known and studied. Here, we report on the unexpected discovery of an abundance of Nanipora colonies in shallow waters less than 2-m deep around a CO2 vent from the uninhabited volcanic island of Iwotorishima, Okinawa, in southern Japan. Nanipora colonies were found covering both coral rubble and hard substrates, alongside a few soft coral and zoantharian species. Polyps were pale white in color with none brown or darker in coloration as in some recent reports. As the original description of N. kamurai from Zamami Island in Okinawa describes the species as azooxanthellate, as the current Iwotorishima specimens also appear to be, and recently reported specimens from Thailand, Dongsha Atoll, and Yaeyama are zooxanthellate, it may be that there are more than one Nanipora species; the type species N. kamurai that is also likely at Iwotorishima, and a zooxanthellate species that constitutes the other records. Although Nanipora is not well studied, its presence at this volcanic CO2 seep suggests it has the ability to survive under unique and extreme environmental conditions, rendering it as a potentially important subject of study in the face of increasing ocean acidification.

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Investigating incidence and possible causes of pink and purple pigmentation response in hard coral genus Porites around Okinawajima Island, Japan

Kubomura T.

Regional Studies in Marine Science ( Regional Studies in Marine Science )  41   2021.01 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

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Loss of natural coastline influences species diversity of anemonefish and host anemones in the Ryukyu Archipelago

Hayashi K.

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems ( Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems )  31 ( 1 ) 15 - 27   2021.01 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

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A new Antipathozoanthus species (Cnidaria, Hexacorallia, Zoantharia) from the northwest Pacific Ocean.

Kise H, Obuchi M, Reimer JD

ZooKeys ( ZooKeys )  1040 ( 1040 ) 49 - 64   2021 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

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A new species of zoantharian within the genus <italic>Antipathozoanthus</italic> is described based on specimens collected from the coast of mainland Japan, northwest Pacific Ocean. <italic>Antipathozoanthus tubus</italic><bold>sp. nov.</bold> is characterized by its substrate (epibiotic on polychaete tube) and habitat (exposed rock). As well, the results of molecular phylogenetic analyses using concatenated multiple genetic markers also support the distinction between <italic>A. tubus</italic><bold>sp. nov.</bold> and its congenerics. <italic>Antipathozoanthus tubus</italic><bold>sp. nov.</bold> is the first species of <italic>Antipathozoanthus</italic> species reported to be epibiotic on polychaete tubes, and is the second species in the genus that is not associated with antipatharians.

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Zoantharian Endosymbiont Community Dynamics During a Stress Event.

Fujiwara Y, Kawamura I, Reimer JD, Parkinson JE

Frontiers in microbiology ( Frontiers in Microbiology )  12   674026   2021 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

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An integrative approach reveals a new species of Zoantharia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa), Terrazoanthus silveirai, in the South-western Atlantic Ocean

Vaga C.F.

Marine Biology Research ( Marine Biology Research )  17 ( 7-8 ) 603 - 614   2021 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

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Environmental DNA can act as a biodiversity barometer of anthropogenic pressures in coastal ecosystems

Joseph D. DiBattista, James D. Reimer, Michael Stat, Giovanni D. Masucci, Piera Biondi, Maarten De Brauwer, Shaun P. Wilkinson, Anthony A. Chariton, Michael Bunce

Scientific Reports ( Springer Science and Business Media LLC )  10 ( 1 )   2020.12 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

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Description of the sea pen Calibelemnon hinoenma sp. nov. from shallow waters in southern Japan

Kushida Y.

Marine Biodiversity ( Marine Biodiversity )  50 ( 6 )   2020.12 [ Peer Review Accepted ]

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Sea pen species of the genus Calibelemnon are important components of soft bottom communities. Here, we formally describe Calibelemnon hinoenma sp. nov. from shallow waters in Amami Oshima, Kagoshima in the Ryukyu Islands, via molecular and morphological observations and analyses. This species can be distinguished from its congeners by the presence of paired autozooids, siphonozooids aligned irregularly in one to three rows at the side of the rachis between polyps, and the red-brown rufous color of the oral disks. Phylogenetically, the new species is located in an Anthoptilum-Umbellula-Calibelemnon clade. Ancestral state reconstruction analyses suggest that Calibelemnon species may have undergone at least two habitat changes, from shallow to deep waters, followed by a return to shallow waters. In the Ryukyu Islands, there have been many recent discoveries of unique marine species, with this sea pen species being the latest.

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