{"id":275,"date":"2012-11-15T15:11:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T15:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/?p=275"},"modified":"2017-05-03T20:36:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T20:36:45","slug":"reef-rumble-corals-attacked-by-seaweeds-use-chemical-cues-to-call-in-grazing-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/2012\/11\/15\/reef-rumble-corals-attacked-by-seaweeds-use-chemical-cues-to-call-in-grazing-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Reef Rumble!  Corals attacked by seaweeds use chemical cues to call in grazing fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/files\/2012\/11\/th.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-276 size-full\" title=\"th\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/files\/2012\/11\/th.jpg\" alt=\"Corals\" width=\"175\" height=\"139\" \/><\/a>Ok, I&#8217;ll be honest.\u00a0 As plant biochemists we usually cheer for the guys in green (in this case, the seaweeds).\u00a0 But even we can make an exception when\u00a0fleshy seaweeds attack corals, which are already in serious decline from coral bleaching, warming sea temperatures, and other aspects of climate change.\u00a0 In a recent article in Science magazine, Dixson and Hay describe one way corals fight back against seaweeds that threaten to overgrow them.\u00a0 In short, some corals can call in grazing fish &#8211; in this case gobbies &#8211; to remove the invaders.\u00a0 The communication is chemical, involving waterborne signals.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the reference:<\/p>\n<p>D.L. Dixson and M.E. Hay. Corals chemically cue mutualistic fishes to remove competing seaweeds. Science, Vol. 338, November 9, 2012, p. 804. doi:10.1126\/science.1225748.<\/p>\n<p>and a summary from Scientific American:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/science-sushi\/2012\/11\/08\/coral-recruits-goby-bodyguards-against-seaweed-assasins\/\">http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/science-sushi\/2012\/11\/08\/coral-recruits-goby-bodyguards-against-seaweed-assasins\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I&#8217;ll be honest.\u00a0 As plant biochemists we usually cheer for the guys in green (in this case, the seaweeds).\u00a0 But even we can make an exception when\u00a0fleshy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}