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Effect of Temperature and Salinity on the Survival of Early Larval Stage of Scalloped Spiny Lobster, Panulirus homarus Open

Mohamed Khalfan Al-Wahaibi, Wenresti G. Gallardo, Jupit M Donoso, Michel R. Claereboudt · 2025

Seasonal variations of surface mesozooplankton community structure in the Sea of Oman and the Arabian Sea Open

Saud Salim Al Busaidi, Michel R. Claereboudt · 2025

Short distances dominate connectivity patterns of coral communities in the North-West Arabian Sea Open

Michel R. Claereboudt, Gerd Bruss · 2025

Larval connectivity relies on the ability of coral larvae to disperse into the environment following ocean currents. At short timescales, larval connectivity plays a key role in the resilience of coral reefs, as it determines their capacit…

Aggregations of a Sessile Ctenophore, Coeloplana sp., on Indo-West Pacific Gorgonians Open

Kaveh Samimi‐Namin, Michel R. Claereboudt, Bert W. Hoeksema, Catherine S. McFadden, Nicholas Bezio , et al. · 2023

We document the benthic ctenophores Coeloplana sp. and Vallicula multiformis from Oman, extending their geographic range. A new Coeloplana species was found forming aggregations on gorgonians of two octocoral host genera, Melithaea and Eup…

Short-Lived Aggregations of Filograna/Salmacina Tube Worms in the Gulf of Oman Open

Kaveh Samimi‐Namin, Harry A. ten Hove, Michel R. Claereboudt, Gustav Paulay, Bert W. Hoeksema · 2022

Dense aggregations of serpulid worms were encountered in the Daymaniyat Islands (Gulf of Oman) from 10 to 20 m depth, over the period January–March, 2021. The species responsible for these aggregations belongs to the Filograna/Salmacina-co…

Review of fisheries and management of sea cucumbers in the Indian Ocean Open

Chantal Conand, Michel R. Claereboudt, Chamari Dissayanake, A. Ebrahim, Stella Fernando , et al. · 2022

Several sea cucumber species (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) are fished, mostly for export of the dried product for Oriental consumers. Previous studies had analysed the historical trends at the world-scale until 2014. In the Western Indian…

Echinoderm Diversity in the Arabian Sea and the Sea of Oman Open

Michel R. Claereboudt, Khalfan M. Alrashdi · 2022

An extensive survey of most of the habitats of the coast of the Sultanate of Oman revealed an echinoderm biodiversity larger than anticipated.Survey dives were carried out in 5 regions of the Sultanate (Musandam, Capital area, Sur-Qalhat, …

Gene expression plasticity and frontloading promote thermotolerance in Pocillopora corals Open

Kelly Brener-Raffalli, Jérémie Vidal‐Dupiol, Mehdi Adjeroud, Olivier Rey, Pascal Romans , et al. · 2022

Ecosystems worldwide are suffering from climate change. Coral reef ecosystems are globally threatened by increasing sea surface temperatures. However, gene expression plasticity provides the potential for organisms to respond rapidly and e…

Marine climate change risks to biodiversity and society in the ROPME Sea Area Open

Katherine Maltby, Ella L. Howes, Susana Lincoln, John K. Pinnegar, Paul Buckley , et al. · 2022

The subtropical ROPME Sea Area (RSA), comprising the Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and the northern Arabian Sea, is a heavily exploited sea region that experiences extreme environmental conditions, and for which climate change is expected to furt…

A Regional Review of Marine and Coastal Impacts of Climate Change on the ROPME Sea Area Open

Susana Lincoln, Paul Buckley, Ella L. Howes, Katherine Maltby, John K. Pinnegar , et al. · 2021

The Regional Organization for the Protection of the Marine Environment (ROPME) Sea Area (RSA) in the northern Indian Ocean, which comprises the Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and the northern Arabian Sea, already experiences naturally extreme envi…

Characterization of pasteurized milk spoilage by electronic nose in relation to its selected quality parameters Open

Saleem Ehsan, Zahir Al‐Attabi, Nasser Al‐Habsi, Michel R. Claereboudt, Mohammad Shafiur Rahman · 2021

Pasteurized fresh milk requires an accurate estimation of shelf life under various conditions to minimize the risk of spoilage and product losses. Milk samples were stored for 56 h in an oven at 25°C and for 15 days in a r…

Characterization of pasteurized milk spoilage by electronic nose in relation to its selected quality parameters Open

Saleem Ehsan, Zahir Al‐Attabi, Nasser Al‐Habsi, Michel R. Claereboudt, Mohammad Shafiur Rahman · 2021

Pasteurized fresh milk requires an accurate estimation of shelf life under various conditions to minimize the risk of spoilage and product losses. Milk samples were stored for 56 h in an oven at 25°C and for 15 days in a refrigerator at 4°…

Population genomics ofPocilloporacorals: insights from RAD-sequencing Open

Didier Aurelle, Marine Pratlong, Nicolas Oury, Anne Haguenauer, Pauline Gélin , et al. · 2021

Scleractinian corals are of great ecological interest as ecosystem engineer species. Accordingly, there is a wealth of studies on their adaptive abilities facing climate change. Such studies should rely on precise species and population de…

Triterpenoids in Echinoderms: Fundamental Differences in Diversity and Biosynthetic Pathways Open

Emily Claereboudt, Guillaume Caulier, Corentin Decroo, Emmanuel Colson, Pascal Gerbaux , et al. · 2019

Echinoderms form a remarkable phylum of marine invertebrates that present specific chemical signatures unique in the animal kingdom. It is particularly the case for essential triterpenoids that evolved separately in each of the five echino…

Attractability and palatability of formulated diets incorporated with chicken feather and algal meals for juvenile gilthead seabream, Sparus aurata Open

Ahmed Said Al-Souti, Wenresti G. Gallardo, Michel R. Claereboudt, O. Mahgoub · 2019

Treated chicken feather meal with 20, 35 and 50% replacement of fish meal (20, 35, 50 CHF), algal meal with 20 and 35% replacement of fish meal (20, 35 AM) and control diet (CNL) were tested for attractability and palatability to juvenile …

Preliminary Trials on Hatchery and Larval Development of the Sea Cucumber, Holothuria scabra (Jaeger 1883), in the Sultanate of Oman Open

Khalfan M. Al-Rashdi, Michel R. Claereboudt, Igor Eeckhaut · 2019

Although sea cucumber Holothuria scabra has always been part of the traditional exploitation of the benthos of Mahout Bay in the Arabian Sea, the foreign demand for the product and its high price have put increased pressure on the resource…

Reproductive biology of the sea cucumber Holothuria scabra (Jaeger 1883) in mahout Bay, Arabian Sea, Oman Open

Khalfan M. Al-Rashdi, Michel R. Claereboudt · 2018

The first official records of the exploitation of Holothuria scabra in Oman were reported around 10 years ago. Unfortunately, the population of this exploited stock followed the same rapid decline as most exploited population of this sea c…

Gene expression plasticity and frontloading promote thermotolerance in Pocillopora corals Open

Kelly Brener-Raffalli, Jérémie Vidal‐Dupiol, Mehdi Adjeroud, Olivier Rey, Pascal Romans , et al. · 2018

Ecosystems worldwide are suffering from climate change. Coral reef ecosystems are globally threatened by increasing sea surface temperatures. However, gene expression plasticity provides the potential for organisms to respond rapidly and e…

Past summer upwelling events in the Gulf of Oman derived from a coral geochemical record Open

Takaaki K. Watanabe, Tsuyoshi Watanabe, Atsuko Yamazaki, Miriam Pfeiffer, Dieter Garbe‐Schönberg , et al. · 2017

We used a high-resolution oxygen isotope (δ 18 O coral ), carbon isotope (δ 13 C coral ) and Sr/Ca ratios measured in the skeleton of a reef-building coral, Porites sp ., to reveal seasonal-scale upwelling events and their interannual vari…

Seasonal variability of size-classes of phytoplankton biomass in a sub-tropical embayment, Muscat, Sea of Oman Open

K. Al-Hashmi, Michel R. Claereboudt, Sergey Piontkovski, Abdulaziz AL Azri, S. M. Nurul Amin · 2015

The contribution of three different cell size classes of picoplankton: 0.74-2 μm, nanoplankton:2–20 μm and microplankton, >20 μm of the phytoplankton population and their relationship to environmental conditions were studied over two annua…

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