Standardized Methods to Assess the Impacts of Thermal Stress on Coral Reef Marine Life

CR Voolstra, R Alderdice, L Colin… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The Earth's oceans have absorbed more than 90% of the excess, climate change–induced
atmospheric heat. The resulting rise in oceanic temperatures affects all species and can …

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 …

Selective breeding enhances coral heat tolerance to marine heatwaves

A Humanes, L Lachs, E Beauchamp, L Bukurou… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Marine heatwaves are becoming more frequent, widespread and severe, causing mass
coral bleaching and mortality. Natural adaptation may be insufficient to keep pace with …

Building consensus around the assessment and interpretation of Symbiodiniaceae diversity

SW Davies, MH Gamache, LI Howe-Kerr, NG Kriefall… - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
Dinoflagellates in the family Symbiodiniaceae occupy multiple ecological niches on tropical,
subtropical, and temperate reefs, ranging from species that are exclusively free-living to …

Lineage dynamics of the endosymbiotic cell type in the soft coral Xenia

M Hu, X Zheng, CM Fan, Y Zheng - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Many corals harbour symbiotic dinoflagellate algae. The algae live inside coral cells in a
specialized membrane compartment known as the symbiosome, which shares the …

South Atlantic coral reefs are major global warming refugia and less susceptible to bleaching

M Mies, RB Francini-Filho, C Zilberberg… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Mass coral bleaching has increased in intensity and frequency and has severely impacted
shallow tropical reefs worldwide. Although extensive investigation has been conducted on …