Keller-Costa, T. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3702-9192
Lago-Lestón, A.
Saraiva, J. P.
Toscan, R.
Silva, S. G.
Gonçalves, J.
Cox, C. J.
Kyrpides, N.
Nunes da Rocha, U.
Costa, R.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Programa Operacional Regional de Lisboa 2020 (Project N.007317)
Portuguese node of ELIXIR, BIODATA.PT (ALG-01-0145-FEDER-022231)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (EXPL/MAR-EST/1664/2013, EXPL/MAR-EST/1664/2013, SFRH/BPD/34282/2006, PTDC/MAR-BIO/1547/2014, PTDC/MAR-BIO/1547/2014, PD/BD/143029/2018)
Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft (VH-NG-1248 Micro 'Big Data', VH-NG-1248 Micro 'Big Data', VH-NG-1248 Micro 'Big Data')
Fundo Azul - Direção-Geral de Política do Mar (FA_05_2017_032, FA_05_2017_032)
Article History
Received: 8 September 2020
Accepted: 8 February 2021
First Online: 25 March 2021
Declarations
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: This article does contain neither any studies with human participants nor vertebrate animals or cephalopods performed by any of the authors. This study was exempt from ethical approval procedures according to the current Portuguese legislation. All procedures involving animals were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institution (Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR), Faro, Portugal) at which the coral samples were processed. This study did not involve endangered or protected octocoral species (according to the IUCN red list of threatened species, 02/11/2019: ). The sampling of octocorals did not occur within privately owned or protected areas. Sampling procedures were minimally intrusive and preserved octocoral colonies at the field site.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.