Corals are fundamental ecosystem engineers, creating large, intricate reefs that support
diverse and abundant marine life. At the core of a healthy coral animal is a dynamic …

To thrive in nutrient-poor waters, coral reefs must retain and recycle materials efficiently. This
review centers microbial processes in facilitating the persistence and stability of coral reefs …

Microbial viruses can control host abundances via density-dependent lytic predator–prey
dynamics. Less clear is how temperate viruses, which coexist and replicate with their host …

Numerous studies have documented declines in the abundance of reef-building corals over
the last several decades and in some but not all cases, phase shifts to dominance by …

Background Coral reefs are facing unprecedented pressure on local and global scales.
Sensitive and rapid markers for ecosystem stress are urgently needed to underpin effective …

Phages can exploit their bacterial hosts by lytic infection, when many viral particles are
released at cell lysis, or by lysogeny, when phages integrate into the host's genome. We …

In the last two decades, genetic and genomic studies have revealed the astonishing
diversity and ubiquity of microorganisms. Emergence and expansion of the human …

Cumulative pressures from global climate and ocean change combined with multiple
regional and local‐scale stressors pose fundamental challenges to coral reef managers …

Microbialization refers to the observed shift in ecosystem trophic structure towards higher
microbial biomass and energy use. On coral reefs, the proximal causes of microbialization …

Lysogens are common at high bacterial densities, an observation that contrasts with the
prevailing view of lysogeny as a low‐density refugium strategy. Here, we review the …