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 …

Coral‐bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales

R Van Woesik, T Shlesinger, AG Grottoli… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The global impacts of climate change are evident in every marine ecosystem. On coral reefs,
mass coral bleaching and mortality have emerged as ubiquitous responses to ocean …

Marine heatwaves drive recurrent mass mortalities in the Mediterranean Sea

J Garrabou, D Gómez‐Gras, A Medrano… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is causing an increase in the frequency and intensity of marine heatwaves
(MHWs) and mass mortality events (MMEs) of marine organisms are one of their main …

Genetic diversity loss in the Anthropocene

M Exposito-Alonso, TR Booker, L Czech, L Gillespie… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Anthropogenic habitat loss and climate change are reducing species' geographic ranges,
increasing extinction risk and losses of species' genetic diversity. Although preserving …

3D genomics across the tree of life reveals condensin II as a determinant of architecture type

C Hoencamp, O Dudchenko, AMO Elbatsh… - Science, 2021 - science.org
We investigated genome folding across the eukaryotic tree of life. We find two types of three-
dimensional (3D) genome architectures at the chromosome scale. Each type appears and …

Cumulative risk of future bleaching for the world's coral reefs

C Mellin, S Brown, N Cantin, E Klein-Salas… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Spatial and temporal patterns of future coral bleaching are uncertain, hampering global
conservation efforts to protect coral reefs against climate change. Our analysis of daily …

The inflated significance of neutral genetic diversity in conservation genetics

JC Teixeira, CD Huber - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2021 - pnas.org
The current rate of species extinction is rapidly approaching unprecedented highs, and life
on Earth presently faces a sixth mass extinction event driven by anthropogenic activity …

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 …

Perspectives and benefits of high-throughput long-read sequencing in microbial ecology

L Tedersoo, M Albertsen, S Anslan… - Applied and …, 2021 - journals.asm.org
Short-read, high-throughput sequencing (HTS) methods have yielded numerous important
insights into microbial ecology and function. Yet, in many instances short-read HTS …

A beginner's guide to low‐coverage whole genome sequencing for population genomics

RN Lou, A Jacobs, AP Wilder… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Low‐coverage whole genome sequencing (lcWGS) has emerged as a powerful and cost‐
effective approach for population genomic studies in both model and nonmodel species …