Coral bleaching caused by global warming is one of the major threats to coral reefs. Very
recently, research has focused on the possibility of corals switching symbionts as a means of …

Microbial communities respond and quickly adapt to disturbance and have central roles in
ecosystem function. Yet, the many roles of coral-associated microbial communities are not …

Reef-building corals thriving in extreme thermal environments may provide genetic variation
that can assist the evolution of populations to rapid climate warming. However, the feasibility …

Climate change is negatively affecting the stability of natural ecosystems, especially coral
reefs. The dissociation of the symbiosis between reef-building corals and their algal …

Corals depend on a mutualistic symbiosis with intracellular dinoflagellates of the genus
Symbiodinium for their energetic needs. The high productivity of corals in a challenging …

A changing climate is driving increasingly common and prolonged marine heatwaves
(MHWs) and these extreme events have now been widely documented to severely impact …

Knowledge of the degree to which corals undergo physiological acclimatization or genetic
adaptation in response to changes in their thermal environment is crucial to the success of …

Most of the work on the impact of elevated temperature and light on Symbiodinium‐
invertebrate symbioses have focused primarily on how the photosynthetic (algal) partner is …

During the past several decades, numerous reports from disparate geographical areas have
documented an increased frequency of “bleaching” in reef-forming corals. The …

The success of any symbiosis under stress conditions is dependent upon the responses of
both partners to that stress. The coral symbiosis is particularly susceptible to small increases …