• 2025

Depth-dependent microskeletal features modify light harvesting in Turbinaria reniformis corals (2025) iScience, 28(8), 113137. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.113137

Netanel Kramer, Claudia Tatiana Galindo-Martínez, Steven L. Jacques, Martin Tresguerres, Yossi Loya, Daniel Wangpraseurt

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Intratentacular budding and zooid-dynamics in two coral genera (2025) Ecological Informatics 90, 103293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2025.103293

​Matan Yuval, Amit Peleg, Elvan Ceyhan, Dan Tchernov, Yossi Loya, Avi Bar-Massada, Tali Treibitz

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• 2024

Reproductive biology and early life history of the solitary coral Heliofungia actiniformis from Singapore and the Philippines (2024). Mar Biol 171, 56 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-023-04378-y

​Sherry Lyn G. Sayco, Rian Prasetia, Peter A. Todd, Yossi Loya, Brian Valencia, Lala Grace Calle & Patrick C. Cabaitan

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Quantifying Attributes of Boring Bivalve Populations in Corals Using Micro-Computed Tomography (2024). Front. Mar. Sci. 11:1407537. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2024.1407537

​Netanel Kramer, Tal Amit, Noga Gavrieli, Maya Gross, Daniel Wangpraseurt, Yossi Loya

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Reproductive ecology of fire corals in the northern Red Sea. Coral Reefs (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-024-02565-x

Lachan Roth, Tom Shlesinger, Yossi Loya

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Coral Hosts Provide More than Shelter to Boring Bivalves (2024). Ecology e4376. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4376

Tal Amit, Peter G. Beninger, Gitai Yahel, Yossi Loya​

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• 2023

Assessment of storm impact on coral reef structural complexity (2023) 891, 164493 
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164493

Matan Yuval, Naama Pearl, Dan Tchernov, Stephane Martinez, Yossi Loya, Avi Bar-Massada, Tali Treibitz

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Light pollution alters the skeletal morphology of coral juveniles and impairs their light capture capacity. Marine Pollution Bulletin (2023) 193, 115212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115212

Netanel Kramer, Raz Tamir, Claudia Tatiana Galindo-Martínez, Daniel Wangpraseurt, Yossi Loya

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Energy allocation trade-offs as a function of age in fungiid corals. Front. Mar. Sci. (2023) 10:1113987.
doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1113987

Mila Grinblat, Lee Eyal-Shaham, Gal Eyal, Or Ben-Zvi, Saki Harii, Masya Morita, Kazuhiko Sakai, Mamiko Hirose, David J. Miller, Yossi Loya 

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Feeding on the smallest cells: an in situ study of picoplankton capture by bivalve molluscs from oligotrophic waters. Front. Mar. Sci. (2023) 10:1184773. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1184773

Tal Amit, Raz Moskovich, Yuval Jacobi, Sandra E. Shumway, Evan J. Ward, Peter Beninger, Gitai Yahel, Yossi Loya

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Coming of age: Annual onset of coral reproduction is determined by age rather than size. iScience, 26, 5 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.106533

Hanna Rapuano, Tom Shlesinger, Lachan Roth, Omri Bronstein, Yossi Loya

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• 2022

Morpho-functional traits of the coral Stylophora pistillata enhance light capture for photosynthesis at mesophotic depths. Nature Communications, 5, 861 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03829-4

Netanel Kramer, Jiaao Guan, Shaochen Chen, Daniel Wangpraseurt, Yossi Loya

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Emerging 3D technologies for future reformation of coral reefs: Enhancing biodiversity using biomimetic structures based on designs by nature. Science of the Total Environment, 830, 154749 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154749

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Coral fluorescence: a prey-lure in deep habitats. Commun Biol 5, 537 (2022).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03460-3

Or Ben-Zvi, Yoav Lindemann, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya

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Soft coral reproductive phenology along a depth gradient: Can “going deeper” provide a viable refuge? (2022). Ecology. e3760. 
https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3760

Ronen Liberman, Tom Shlesinger, Yossi Loya, Yehuda Benayahu

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Growth and survival dynamics of mesophotic coral juveniles in shallow reefs (2022) Marine Ecology Progress Series 682:237-242
https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13956

Netanel Kramer, Raz Tamir, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya

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• 2021

Efficient light-harvesting of mesophotic corals is facilitated by coral optical traits (2021) Functional Ecology, 00, 1-13
https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13948

Netanel Kramer, Raz Tamir, Or Ben-Zvi, Steven L. Jacques, Yossi Loya, Daniel Wangpraseurt

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Biogeography, reproductive biology and phylogenetic divergence within the Fungiidae (mushroom corals) (2021) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 164:107265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107265

Mila Grinblat, Ira Cooke, Tom Shlesinger, Or Ben-Zvi, Yossi Loya, David J. Miller, Peter F. Cowman

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Symbiodiniaceae conduct under natural bleaching stress during advanced gametogenesis stages of a mesophotic coral (2021) Coral Reefs 40, 959–964. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-021-02082-1

Gal Eyal, Lee Eyal-Shaham, Yossi Loya

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Who is smashing the reef at night? A nocturnal mystery (2021) The Scientific Naturalist
https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3420

Tom Shlesinger, Derya Akkaynak, Yossi Loya

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Photosynthesis and bio-optical properties of fluorescent mesophotic corals (2021) Frontiers in Marine Science 8:651601
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.651601

Or Ben-Zvi, Daniel Wangpraseurt, Omri Bronstein, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya

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Mesophotic reef geomorphology categorization, habitat identification, and relationships with surface cover and terrace formation in the Gulf of Aqaba (2021) Geomorphology 107548. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107548

David K. Weinstein, Raz Tamir, Netanel Kramer, Gal Eyal, Igal Berenshtein, Yonathan Shaked, Yossi Loya, Adi Torfstein

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Depth-dependent parental effects create invisible barriers to coral dispersal (2021) Communications Biology 4:202
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01727-9

Tom Shlesinger, Yossi Loya

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Experimental evidence of temperature-induced bleaching in two fluorescence morphs of a Red Sea mesophotic coral (2021) Coral Reefs 40(1):187-99
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-020-02027-0

Or Ben-Zvi, Eyal Ofer, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya

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Repeatable semantic reef-mapping through photogrammetry and label-augmentation (2021) Remote Sensing 13(4), 659
https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13040659

Matan Yuval, Iñigo Alonso, Gal Eyal, Dan Tchernov, Yossi Loya, Ana C. Murillo, Tali Treibitz

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An Indo-Pacific coral spawning database (2021) Scientific Data 8(35)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00793-8

Baird, A.H., Guest, J.R., Edwards, A.J. et al.

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• 2020

A unique reproductive strategy in the mushroom coral Fungia fungites (2020) Coral Reefs

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-020-02004-7

Lee Eyal-Shaham, Gal Eyal, Or Ben-Zvi, Kazuhiko Sakai, Saki Harii, Frederic Sinniger, Mamiko Hirose, Patrick Cabaitan, Omri Bronstein, Bar Feldman, Tom Shlesinger, Oren Levy, Yossi Loya

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Coral morphology portrays the spatial distribution and population size-structure along a 5-100 m depth gradient (2020) Frontiers in Marine Science 7:615. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00615

Netanel Kramer, Raz Tamir, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya

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A generalized light-driven model of community transitions along coral reef depth gradients (2020) Global Ecology and Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13140

Jack H. Laverick, Raz Tamir, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya

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Reciprocal-transplantation between shallow and mesophotic stony corals (2020), Marine Environmental Research 105035.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.105035

Raz Tamir, Or Ben-Zvi, Gal Eyal, Netanel Kramer, Yossi Loya

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Photophysiology of a mesophotic coral 3 years after transplantation to a shallow environment (2020), Coral Rees 1-11

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-020-01910-0

Or Ben-Zvi, Raz Tamir, Nir Keren, Dan Tchernov, Ilana Berman-Frank, Yuval Kolodny, Tal Benaltabet, Harel Bavli, Mor Friedman, Noga Glanz-Idan, Hadar Traugott, Yossi Loya, Gal Eyal

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Science, Diplomacy, and the Red Sea’s Unique Coral Reef: It’s Time for Action (2020) Frontiers in Marine Science 7:90

https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00090

Karine Kleinhaus, Ali Al-Sawalmih, Daniel J Barshis, Amatzia Genin, Lola N Grace, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Yossi Loya, Anders Meibom, Eslam O Osman, Jean-Daniel Ruch, Yonathan Shaked, Christian R Voolstra, Assaf Zvuloni, Maoz Fine

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Effects of Light Pollution on the Early Life Stages of the Most Abundant Northern Red Sea Coral (2020) Microorganisms 8(2):193

http://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8020193

Raz Tamir, Gal Eyal, Itay Cohen, Yossi Loya

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• 2019

Breakdown in spawning synchrony: A silent threat to coral persistence (2019) Science 365 (6457):1002-1007
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax0110

Tom Shlesinger, Yossi Loya

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Light environment drives the shallow‐to‐mesophotic coral community transition (2019) Ecosphere 10(9):e02839

https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2839

Raz Tamir, Gal Eyal, Netanel Kramer, Jack H Laverick, Yossi Loya

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Mass medusae release and temporal reproductive segregation among the three Red Sea fire coral species (2019) Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 100(2):1-3

https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.1508

Tom Shlesinger, Yossi Loya

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Response of fluorescence morphs of the mesophotic coral Euphyllia paradivisa to ultra-violet radiation (2019) Scientific Reports 9(1):1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41710-3

Or Ben-Zvi, Gal Eyal, Yossi Loya

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Upper mesophotic depths in the coral reefs of Eilat, Red Sea, offer suitable refuge grounds for coral settlement (2019) Scientific Reports 9(1):1-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-38795-1

Netanel Kramer, Gal Eyal, Raz Tamir, Yossi Loya