. The Biological bulletin. Biology; Zoology; Biology; Marine Biology. Figure 4. Resin-cast, cucndoliihic (>-,ti,-/>hiiiin t/iickftlii tilanu'nl attacked h\ tungal Inphae in corallum of Acroporu humulis. Note lexture of aragonite crystals in background. Scanning electron micrograph; scale bar = II) jiin. (Insel) A. cylherea: euendolithic fungal hypha approaching algal tilament (single arrow) and fungal luiisiniium tunmn • ring ihnuul n I double arrow I. Transmitted lighl photomicrograph of peliographic thin section: scale bar 10 pm. site at Johnston Atoll (16 44'N: 169 32'\V|. recognized
. The Biological bulletin. Biology; Zoology; Biology; Marine Biology. Figure 4. Resin-cast, cucndoliihic (>-,ti,-/>hiiiin t/iickftlii tilanu'nl attacked h\ tungal Inphae in corallum of Acroporu humulis. Note lexture of aragonite crystals in background. Scanning electron micrograph; scale bar = II) jiin. (Insel) A. cylherea: euendolithic fungal hypha approaching algal tilament (single arrow) and fungal luiisiniium tunmn • ring ihnuul n I double arrow I. Transmitted lighl photomicrograph of peliographic thin section: scale bar 10 pm. site at Johnston Atoll (16 44'N: 169 32'\V|. recognized as one of the most isolated coral reef habitats in the \unld (17). Similar published observations suggest the possible ubiq- uity and circumiropical distribution of this Resin casi nucrohorings ol'cuendolilhic Iliimihiiini t/urkt'l- lii tilamcnls (single arrows) and fungal hyphae (dmihle .iimwsi within the range of [he green l>.nnl in \Am;//i«r« cf. sludtri. Scanning electron micrograph: scale bar = 100 /nn l;or example. Constant/ (IS. liys 2e. f) depicted structures (which the author referred to as "skeletal granulations") in Di/'lni-iti labrynthiformis, .1 NS'est huhan faviid coral, thai uere nearly identical in st/e and shape to cones described from /'. lo/xilii (7) and observed in our study. Lukas ( 10) reported cndolithic fungi to he present in 10 out of 12 species of Atlantic and Caribbean corals examined, span ning 8 genera. Seheier (I1)) recorded conical structures. somewhat larger bin similar in shape, in ('n//>«/>/;v///. t/iick<-iiii. The response of the polyps, however, is similar in that layers of compact, line crystalline repair carbonate are deposited at points of attempted endolith penetration. The nature of the defense response exhibited by corals in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations
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