The coral microbiome in sickness, in health and in a changing world

CR Voolstra, JB Raina, M Dörr, A Cárdenas… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Stony corals, the engines and engineers of reef ecosystems, face unprecedented threats
from anthropogenic environmental change. Corals are holobionts that comprise the …

Integrating cryptic diversity into coral evolution, symbiosis and conservation

CGB Grupstra, M Gómez-Corrales, JE Fifer… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding how diversity evolves and is maintained is critical to predicting the future
trajectories of ecosystems under climate change; however, our understanding of these …

Coracle—a machine learning framework to identify bacteria associated with continuous variables

S Staab, A Cardénas, RS Peixoto, F Schreiber… - …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We present Coracle, an artificial intelligence (AI) framework that can identify associations
between bacterial communities and continuous variables. Coracle uses an ensemble …

Exploring coral speciation: Multiple sympatric Stylophora pistillata taxa along a divergence continuum on the Great Barrier Reef

Z Meziere, I Popovic, K Prata, I Ryan… - Evolutionary …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how biodiversity originates and is maintained are fundamental challenge in
evolutionary biology. Speciation is a continuous process and progression along this …

Niche breadth and divergence in sympatric cryptic coral species (Pocillopora spp.) across habitats within reefs and among algal symbionts

SC Burgess, AM Turner… - Evolutionary …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
While the presence of morphologically cryptic species is increasingly recognized, we still
lack a useful understanding of what causes and maintains co‐occurring cryptic species and …

Differences in carbonate chemistry up-regulation of long-lived reef-building corals

M Canesi, É Douville, P Montagna, M Taviani… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
With climate projections questioning the future survival of stony corals and their dominance
as tropical reef builders, it is critical to understand the adaptive capacity of corals to ongoing …

Population genetics assessment of two pocilloporid coral species from the northern red sea: Implications for urbanized reef sustainability

EN Rachmilovitz, L Shaish, J Douek… - Marine Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding the genetic makeup of key coral species is vital for effective coral reef
management, as heightened genetic diversity directly influences long-term survival and …

Desert dust improves the photophysiology of heat-stressed corals beyond iron

K Amorim, R Grover, D Omanović, L Sauzéat… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Desert dust is an important source of essential metals for marine primary productivity,
especially in oligotrophic systems surrounded by deserts, such as the Red Sea. However …

Holobiont Traits Shape Climate Change Responses in Cryptic Coral Lineages

CGB Grupstra, KS Meyer‐Kaiser… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
As ocean warming threatens reefs worldwide, identifying corals with adaptations to higher
temperatures is critical for conservation. Genetically distinct but morphologically similar (ie …