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Montastraea cavernosa corallite structure demonstrates distinct morphotypes across shallow and mesophotic depth zones in the Gulf of Mexico | article
Studivan MS, Milstein G, Voss JD (2019)
PLoS ONE 14:e0203732

Biodiversity and Functional Ecology of Mesophotic Coral Reefs | review
Lesser MP, Slattery M, Mobley CD (2018)
Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 49:49-71

Ecophysiology of mesophotic reef‐building corals in Hawai‘i is influenced by symbiont–host associations, photoacclimatization, trophic plasticity, ... | article
Padilla‐Gamiño JL, Roth MS, Rodrigues LJ, Bradley CJ, Bidigare RR, Gates RD, Smith CM, Spalding HL (2019)
Limnol Oceanogr 00:1-16

Octocoral Sexual Reproduction: Temporal Disparity Between Mesophotic and Shallow-Reef Populations | article
Liberman R, Shlesinger T, Loya Y, Benayahu Y (2018)
Front Mar Sci

Mesophotic ecosystems: coral and fish assemblages in a tropical marginal reef (northeastern Brazil) | article
Soares MO, Davis M, de Paiva CC, de Macêdo Carneiro PB (2016)
Mar Biodiv 48:1631–1636

Soft corals form aragonite-precipitated columnar spiculite in mesophotic reefs | article
Shoham E, Prohaska T, Barkay Z, Zitek A, Benayahu Y (2019)
Sci Rep 9:1241

The understorey of gorgonian forests in mesophotic temperate reefs | article
Ponti M, Turicchia E, Ferro F, Cerrano C, Abbiati M (2018)
Aquat Conserv: Mar Freshw Ecosyst 28:1153-1166

CUBA’S MESOPHOTIC CORAL REEFS AND ASSOCIATED FISH COMMUNITIES | article
Reed JK, González-Díaz P, Busutil L, Farrington S, Daranas BM, Rojas DC, Voss J, Diaz C, David A, Hanisak DM, Mendez JG, Rodríguez AG, González- Sánchez PM, Fernández JV, Pérez DE, Studivan M, Drummond F, Jiang M, Pomponi SA (2018)
REVISTA DE INVESTIGACIONES MARINAS 38:60-129
Plectranthiasahiahiata, a new species of perchlet from a mesophotic ecosystem at Rapa Nui (Easter Island) (Teleostei, Serranidae, Anthiadinae) | article
Shepherd B, Phelps T, Pinheiro HT, Pérez-Matus A, Rocha LA (2018)
Zookeys 762:105-116

A review of the sponge increase hypothesis for Caribbean mesophotic reefs | review
Scott AR, Pawlik JR (2018)
Mar Biodiv

Mesophotic ecosystems: Distribution, impacts and conservation in the South Atlantic | review
de Oliveira Soares M, Tavares TCL, Carneiro PB (2018)
Diversity and Distributions 25:255-268

Appearance of an anomalous black band disease at upper mesophotic depths after coral bleaching | article
Kubomura T, Yamashiro H, Reimer JD (2018)
Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 131:245-249

Reproduction, energy storage and metabolic requirements in a mesophotic population of the gorgonian Paramuricea macrospina | article
Grinyó J, Viladrich N, Díaz D, Muñoz A, Mallol S, Salazar J, Castillo R, Gili JM, Gori A (2018)
PLoS ONE 13:e0203308

Taking a deeper look: Quantifying the differences in fish assemblages between shallow and mesophotic temperate rocky reefs | article
Williams J, Jordan A, Harasti D, Davies P, Ingleton T (2019)
PLoS ONE 14:e0206778

AUV-based classification of benthic communities of the Ningaloo shelf and mesophotic areas | article
Turner JA, Babcock RC, Hovey R, Kendrick GA (2018)
Coral Reefs 37:763–778

SubCAS: A Portable, Submersible Hyperbaric Chamber to Collect Living Mesophotic Fishes | article
Shepherd B, Wandell1 M, Pinheiro HT, Rocha LA (2018)
Front Mar Sci 5:187

Mesophotic Ecklonia radiata (Laminariales) at Rangitāhua, Kermadec Islands, New Zealand | article
Nelson W, Duffy C, Trnski T, Stewart R (2019)
Phycologia 57:534-538

Mesophotic sponges of the genus Callyspongia (Demospongiae, Haplosclerida) from Cuba, with the description of two new species | article
Busutil I, García-Hernández MR, Díaz MC, Pomponi SA (2018)
Zootaxa 4466:078–094

New Poecilosclerida from mesophotic coral reefs and the deep-sea escarpment in the Pulley Ridge region, eastern Gulf of Mexico: Discorhabdella ruet... | article
Díaz MC, Pomponi SA (2018)
Zootaxa 466: 229–237

Three new species of Chromis (Teleostei, Pomacentridae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Philippines | article
Arango BG, Pinheiro HT, Rocha C, Greene BD, Pyle RL, Copus JM, Shepherd B, Rocha LA (2019)
Zookeys 835:1-15

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