Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Cascading effects of thermally-induced anemone bleaching on associated anemonefish hormonal stress response and reproduction

  • Ricardo Beldade,
  • Agathe Blandin,
  • Rory O’Donnell,
  • Suzanne C. Mills

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00565-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Elevated temperatures can cause anemones to bleach, with unknown effects on their associated symbiotic fish. Here, Beldade and colleagues show that climate-induced bleaching alters anemonefish hormonal stress response, resulting in decreased reproductive hormones and severely impacted reproduction.