Experiences of men with breast cancer: an exploratory focus group study

Management and care of men with breast cancer is based on that developed for women. Our study reports that men have specific issues regarding certain aspects of their breast cancer experience, including diagnosis, disclosure, support and gender-specific information, and offers suggestions for improved patient care

Caribbean Corals in Crisis: Record Thermal Stress, Bleaching, and Mortality in 2005

BACKGROUND The rising temperature of the world's oceans has become a major threat to coral reefs globally as the severity and frequency of mass coral bleaching and mortality events increase. In 2005, high ocean temperatures in the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean resulted in the most severe bleaching event ever recorded in the basin. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Satellite-based tools provided warnings for coral reef managers and scientists, guiding both the timing and location of researchers' field observations as anomalously warm conditions developed and spread across the greater Caribbean region from June to October 2005. Field surveys of bleaching and mortality exceeded prior efforts in detail and extent, and provided a new standard for documenting the effects of bleaching and for testing nowcast and forecast products. Collaborators from 22 countries undertook the most comprehensive documentation of basin-scale bleaching to date and found that over 80% of corals bleached and over 40% died at many sites. The most severe bleaching coincided with waters nearest a western Atlantic warm pool that was centered off the northern end of the Lesser Antilles. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE Thermal stress during the 2005 event exceeded any observed from the Caribbean in the prior 20 years, and regionally-averaged temperatures were the warmest in over 150 years. Comparison of satellite data against field surveys demonstrated a significant predictive relationship between accumulated heat stress (measured using NOAA Coral Reef Watch's Degree Heating Weeks) and bleaching intensity. This severe, widespread bleaching and mortality will undoubtedly have long-term consequences for reef ecosystems and suggests a troubled future for tropical marine ecosystems under a warming climate.This work was partially supported by salaries from the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program to the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program authors. NOAA provided funding to Caribbean ReefCheck investigators to undertake surveys of bleaching and mortality. Otherwise, no funding from outside authors' institutions was necessary for the undertaking of this study. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript

Deep reefs of the Great Barrier Reef offer limited thermal refuge during mass coral bleaching

Our rapidly warming climate is threatening coral reefs as thermal anomalies trigger mass coral bleaching events. Deep (or "mesophotic") coral reefs are hypothesised to act as major ecological refuges from mass bleaching, but empirical assessments are limited. We evaluated the potential of mesophotic reefs within the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and adjacent Coral Sea to act as thermal refuges by characterising long-term temperature conditions and assessing impacts during the 2016 mass bleaching event. We found that summer upwelling initially provided thermal relief at upper mesophotic depths (40 m), but then subsided resulting in anomalously warm temperatures even at depth. Bleaching impacts on the deep reefs were severe (40% bleached and 6% dead colonies at 40 m) but significantly lower than at shallower depths (60-69% bleached and 8-12% dead at 5-25 m). While we confirm that deep reefs can offer refuge from thermal stress, we highlight important caveats in terms of the transient nature of the protection and their limited ability to provide broad ecological refuge.XL Catlin Seaview Survey; Waitt Foundation; XL Catlin Group; Underwater Earth; University of Queensland; ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) [DE160101433]; Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) [SFRH/BPD/110285/2015]; Australian Research Council (ARC

Lymphocystis in Indian glassfish Chanda ranga imported from Thailand to Puerto Rico

Lymphocystis occurred in Indian glassfish Chanda ranga imported to Puerto Rico from Thailand. This is only the second report of lymphocystis in Indian glassfish and in the family Chandidae (or Ambassidae), but the disease appears to have become widespread in this species in the ornamental aquarium fish trade throughout the southeastern USA and the Caribbean. We report the first occurrence of Indian glassfish with lymphocystis in a region where the fish can survive in the wild. Lymphocystis is not known in Puerto Rican freshwater fishes, and the introduction of this disease should be avoided

Color correction of a publication error in the Tan Hamlet and the second occurrence of a Potentially Inheritable Character the Butter Hamlet (Perciformes: Serranidae)

Las fotografías a color del pez vaca bronceado, Hypoplectrus sp., de St. John y St. Thomas, Islas Vírgenes de los Estados Unidos, se presentan a continuación para corregir un error de impresión en una publicación sobre el pez vaca en las últimas Memorias. Estas figuras fueron impresas accidentalmente en blanco y negro, por lo que resultaban inútiles para los diagnósticos. La Anomalía de la Doble Mancha en el pez vaca mantequilla se propuso como un carácter potencialmente hereditario (PIC, por sus siglas en inglés: Potentially Inheritable Character), lo cual podría llevar a la especiación. Se sugirió la identificación y el seguimiento de los PIC en el área con el fin de estudiar la especiación y la evolución. El hecho de haber encontrado un segundo individuo con la Anomalía de la Doble Mancha significa que es más probable que sea un carácter hereditario que lleva a la especiación del pez vaca mantequilla. Esto podría representar el primero reconocimiento exitoso de un PIC que lleva a una nueva especie