珊瑚

To date, 18 coral diseases, affecting at least 150 scleractinian, gorgonian, and hydrozoan zooxanthellate species, have been described from the Caribbean and the Indo-Pacific.

迄今为止，在加勒比海和印度洋-太平洋地区，发现18种珊瑚疾病影响像造礁珊瑚、柳珊瑚和水螅类的虫黄藻等至少150种。

The high abundance and large colony size of Porites at shallow waters might be ultimate factors for the snail's preference, while larval phototaxis and larval preference on Porites may be proximate mechanisms.

推测微孔珊瑚在浅水区丰度高和群体大可能是造成紫口珊瑚螺对深度有不同偏好的远因，而幼生向光性和对微孔珊瑚的偏好可能是造成此现象之机制。

Patterns in Nature: Coral Coral reefs teem with life, covering less than one percent of the ocean floor, but supporting about 25 percent of all marine creatures.

意译：珊瑚在自然界的模式。珊瑚暗礁大量的出现伴随生活，珊瑚覆盖海洋的表面接近1％，但是支持了大约25％的海洋动物。

A comparison of the bleaching process of zooxanthellae from two different strony corals, Galaxea fascicularis andAcropora austeraField observation showed that in elevated sea water temperature Acropora austera bleached very fast whit while Galaxea fascicularis did not.

从野外采回不同珊瑚的共生藻，在光照下培养后发现自简单轴孔珊瑚分离出的共生藻较丛生棘杯孔珊瑚中分离出之共生藻容易丧失色素。

Built to feed exclusively on corals like this spindly gorgonian, a translucent 1.7-inch-long (4.3-centimeter-long) Phyllodesmium iriomotense houses its branching digestive gland within tentacle-like cerata—outgrowths the animal can shed if under attack.

图中这条1.7英寸(4.3厘米)长的海蛞蝓学名为Phyllodesmium iriomotense，专以珊瑚为食，如图中这种细长的柳珊瑚。它将它生长着枝条形消化腺的触手状露腮依附在珊瑚上，一旦遭到攻击它能蜕去这些露腮来逃生。

This research, on the reproduction of three species of Millepora at Hengchun Peninsula, was conducted between February, 1994 and July, 1995. In order to understand possible prezygotic isolation between them, I investigated reproductive periods, reproductive characters as well as the roles and functions of medusae in the life history of Millepora.

本研究自1994年2月到1995年7月期间，针对恒春半岛的三种火珊瑚(型态为板状、枝状、叉状)，比较彼此生殖季及相关生殖形质，以了解三种火珊瑚是否达到交配前的生殖隔离；并了解水母体在火珊瑚生活史中可能扮演的角色与功能。

In this study the composites were applied to repair the rabbits'mandibular defects and implanted at the surface as onlay grafts that was fixed with dental implants. The ability of the composites repairing maxillofacial defects was evaluated with general observation, radiological and histological examination and compared with autogenous bone and coral.

本研究通过观察rhBMP-2、胶原、珊瑚复合骨修复兔下颌骨缺损，加高狗下颌骨骨面及与牙种植体结合，并与新鲜自体骨和珊瑚的修复作用比较，（1）应用复合骨修复兔下颌骨缺损，1、2、3个月取材，（2）将复合骨植于狗下颌骨体部颊侧骨膜下，采用钛种植体固定，1.5、3个月取材，通过体视及测量，X线片，组织学等观测指标，分析rhBMP-2、胶原、珊瑚复合骨修复骨缺损特点和体内降解特点。

The oldest coral on the reefis probably a species of Porites, known as bouldercoral, which is about 1000 years old and grows onlyone centimetre each year.

这片礁地上最古老的珊瑚大概是一种被称为&石珊瑚&的&滨珊瑚&，大约有1000的历史了，每年只生长1厘米。

New recruit density of Pocilloporidae was higher in 1999 than in 2000, with an opposite pattern found in Poritidae.

鹿角与微孔珊瑚科幼生新添入量具有年间变异，鹿角珊瑚科在1999年新添入量密度显著高於2000年，而微孔珊瑚科幼生则有相反现象。

If a soft coral hosts zooxanthellae (the algae that give coral the nutrients it needs to grow) and the water becomes too warm, the algae leave and the soft coral die.

假如一个软珊瑚主持虫黄藻（海藻给珊瑚营养物质它需要生长）当水变得太热了，海藻离开和软珊瑚死亡。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。