Is culling effective at managing #cots. Yes according to Mike Emslie from Australian Institute of Marine Science but timing of culling is critical for #corals. We need to improve early warning. #eDNA could be the answer Sven Uthicke #cots2021

Prof Morgan Pratchett kicked off Day 2 at the International CoTS Control Forum 2021 in Cairns this morning, presenting exciting new insights into the behavioural ecology of CoTS, including movement and detectability of this destructive starfish. @CoralCoE James Cook Uni

Dr Ciemon Caballes, current lab post-doc, shared his world-leading expertise pertaining the reproductive biology of CoTS (and implications for management of their population irruptions) with scientists, managers and other stakeholders at the Int. CoTS Control Forum @CoralCoE James Cook Uni

My first paper has just been published in Marine Biology! This research helps to inform the use of #eDNA as a novel tool for #CoTS management on the #GBR. Read here: rdcu.be/ckssU Sven Uthicke Cecilia Villacorta Australian Institute of Marine Science SeaSim

Great paper from @pratchettlab on scary fecundity of crown-of thorns seastars in the recent Marine Biology rdcu.be/clOQ9

It must be Thorns Thursday: also the final print version of Sarah Kwong's paper on eDNA release and degradation in Crown-of thorns in the recent issue of Marine Biology Sarah Kwong Australian Institute of Marine Science SeaSim rdcu.be/clORf

We found that the degradation of CoTS eDNA was rapid (half-life 14h), indicating that results of eDNA survey likely reflect recent and local occurrence of CoTS.

Exciting day: Sarah Kwong (supervised/assisted by Dr K-le Gomez) taking her first samples of crown-of-thorns seastars of known age for her PhD studies developing genetic methods to determine age of these important coral predators @pratchettlab Australian Institute of Marine Science SeaSim

New paper led by Bethan Lang, Ph.D out online! This research investigated metabolic responses of Pacific CoTS to acute warming and found evidence of thermal stress, with metabolic depression occurring at 33degC in adult CoTS! journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/71…

Awesome presentation from Sarah Kwong on using molecular techniques to age CoTS! @pratchettlab AIMS@JCU @CoralCoE

Sarah Kwong talking about genomic methods for aging COTS

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