Triggers, cascades, and endpoints: connecting the dots of coral bleaching mechanisms

J Helgoe, SK Davy, VM Weis… - Biological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The intracellular coral–dinoflagellate symbiosis is the engine that underpins the success of
coral reefs, one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. However, the breakdown of …

Coral environmental memory: causes, mechanisms, and consequences for future reefs

S Hackerott, HA Martell, JM Eirin-Lopez - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2021 - cell.com
The apparent ability of corals to acquire and maintain enhanced stress tolerance through a
dose-dependent environmental memory, which may persist for multiple years, has critical …

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 …

Enhancing the heat tolerance of reef-building corals to future warming

EJ Howells, D Abrego, YJ Liew, JA Burt, E Meyer… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
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 …

Looking Down on NF-κB

LM Williams, TD Gilmore - Molecular and Cellular Biology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The diversified NF-κB transcription factor family has been extensively characterized in
organisms ranging from flies to humans. However, homologs of NF-κB and many upstream …

CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing in a reef-building coral

PA Cleves, ME Strader, LK Bay, JR Pringle… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - pnas.org
Reef-building corals are critically important species that are threatened by anthropogenic
stresses including climate change. In attempts to understand corals' responses to stress and …

Reduced thermal tolerance in a coral carrying CRISPR-induced mutations in the gene for a heat-shock transcription factor

PA Cleves, AI Tinoco, J Bradford, D Perrin… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
Reef-building corals are keystone species that are threatened by anthropogenic stresses
including climate change. To investigate corals' responses to stress and other aspects of …

Mechanisms of thermal tolerance in reef-building corals across a fine-grained environmental mosaic: lessons from Ofu, American Samoa

L Thomas, NH Rose, RA Bay, EH López… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Environmental heterogeneity gives rise to phenotypic variation through a combination of
phenotypic plasticity and fixed genetic effects. For reef-building corals, understanding the …

Marine heatwave hotspots in coral reef environments: physical drivers, ecophysiological outcomes, and impact upon structural complexity

AJ Fordyce, TD Ainsworth, SF Heron… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
A changing climate is driving increasingly common and prolonged marine heatwaves
(MHWs) and these extreme events have now been widely documented to severely impact …

Expression plasticity regulates intraspecific variation in the acclimatization potential of a reef-building coral

C Drury, J Dilworth, E Majerová, C Caruso… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Phenotypic plasticity is an important ecological and evolutionary response for organisms
experiencing environmental change, but the ubiquity of this capacity within coral species …