Extending the natural adaptive capacity of coral holobionts

CR Voolstra, DJ Suggett, RS Peixoto… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change and environmental degradation destroy coral reefs, the
ecosystem services they provide, and the livelihoods of close to a billion people who …

Human‐induced salinity changes impact marine organisms and ecosystems

T Röthig, SM Trevathan‐Tackett… - Global change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is fundamentally altering marine and coastal ecosystems on a global scale.
While the effects of ocean warming and acidification on ecology and ecosystem functions …

Interaction and signalling between a cosmopolitan phytoplankton and associated bacteria

SA Amin, LR Hmelo, HM Van Tol, BP Durham… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Interactions between primary producers and bacteria impact the physiology of both partners,
alter the chemistry of their environment, and shape ecosystem diversity,. In marine …

SymPortal: A novel analytical framework and platform for coral algal symbiont next‐generation sequencing ITS2 profiling

BCC Hume, EG Smith, M Ziegler… - Molecular ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We present SymPortal (SymPortal. org), a novel analytical framework and platform
for genetically resolving the algal symbionts of reef corals using next‐generation …

The future of coral reefs subject to rapid climate change: lessons from natural extreme environments

EF Camp, V Schoepf, PJ Mumby, LA Hardtke… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Global climate change and localized anthropogenic stressors are driving rapid declines in
coral reef health. In vitro experiments have been fundamental in providing insight into how …

Thermal refugia against coral bleaching throughout the northern Red Sea

EO Osman, DJ Smith, M Ziegler, B Kürten… - Global change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical reefs have been impacted by thermal anomalies caused by global warming that
induced coral bleaching and mortality events globally. However, there have only been very …

Marine protected areas increase resilience among coral reef communities

C Mellin, M Aaron MacNeil, AJ Cheal… - Ecology …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
With marine biodiversity declining globally at accelerating rates, maximising the
effectiveness of conservation has become a key goal for local, national and international …

Coral microbiome composition along the northern Red Sea suggests high plasticity of bacterial and specificity of endosymbiotic dinoflagellate communities

EO Osman, DJ Suggett, CR Voolstra, DT Pettay… - Microbiome, 2020 - Springer
Background The capacity of reef-building corals to tolerate (or adapt to) heat stress is a key
factor determining their resilience to future climate change. Changes in coral microbiome …

Ancestral genetic diversity associated with the rapid spread of stress-tolerant coral symbionts in response to Holocene climate change

BCC Hume, CR Voolstra, C Arif, C D'Angelo… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - pnas.org
Coral communities in the Persian/Arabian Gulf (PAG) withstand unusually high salinity
levels and regular summer temperature maxima of up to∼ 35° C that kill conspecifics …

Host adaptation and unexpected symbiont partners enable reef‐building corals to tolerate extreme temperatures

EJ Howells, D Abrego, E Meyer, NL Kirk… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the potential for coral adaptation to warming seas is complicated by
interactions between symbiotic partners that define stress responses and the difficulties of …