The coral microbiome in sickness, in health and in a changing world

CR Voolstra, JB Raina, M Dörr, A Cárdenas… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Stony corals, the engines and engineers of reef ecosystems, face unprecedented threats
from anthropogenic environmental change. Corals are holobionts that comprise the …

The coral microbiome: towards an understanding of the molecular mechanisms of coral–microbiota interactions

AR Mohamed, MA Ochsenkühn… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Corals live in a complex, multipartite symbiosis with diverse microbes across kingdoms,
some of which are implicated in vital functions, such as those related to resilience against …

Fly Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult fruit fly

H Li, J Janssens, M De Waegeneer, SS Kolluru… - Science, 2022 - science.org
For more than 100 years, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has been one of the most
studied model organisms. Here, we present a single-cell atlas of the adult fly, Tabula …

cGLRs are a diverse family of pattern recognition receptors in innate immunity

Y Li, KM Slavik, HC Toyoda, BR Morehouse… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Summary Cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS) is an enzyme in human cells that controls an
immune response to cytosolic DNA. Upon binding DNA, cGAS synthesizes a nucleotide …

Stepwise emergence of the neuronal gene expression program in early animal evolution

SR Najle, X Grau-Bové, A Elek, C Navarrete… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The assembly of the neuronal and other major cell type programs occurred early in animal
evolution. We can reconstruct this process by studying non-bilaterians like placozoans …

Stony coral tissue loss disease induces transcriptional signatures of in situ degradation of dysfunctional Symbiodiniaceae

KM Beavers, EW Van Buren, AM Rossin… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD), one of the most pervasive and virulent coral
diseases on record, affects over 22 species of reef-building coral and is decimating reefs …

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 …

Annelid adult cell type diversity and their pluripotent cellular origins

P Álvarez-Campos, H García-Castro, E Emili… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Many annelids can regenerate missing body parts or reproduce asexually, generating all
cell types in adult stages. However, the putative adult stem cell populations involved in these …

Harnessing the power of model organisms to unravel microbial functions in the coral holobiont

G Puntin, M Sweet, S Fraune, M Medina… - Microbiology and …, 2022 - journals.asm.org
Stony corals build the framework of coral reefs, ecosystems of immense ecological and
economic importance. The existence of these ecosystems is threatened by climate change …

Cell type evolution reconstruction across species through cell phylogenies of single-cell RNA sequencing data

JL Mah, CW Dunn - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2024 - nature.com
The origin and evolution of cell types has emerged as a key topic in evolutionary biology.
Driven by rapidly accumulating single-cell datasets, recent attempts to infer cell type …