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 reef survival under accelerating ocean deoxygenation

DJ Hughes, R Alderdice, C Cooney, M Kühl… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Global warming and local eutrophication simultaneously lower oxygen (O2) saturation and
increase biological O2 demands to cause deoxygenation. Tropical shallow waters, and their …

Coral-associated bacteria demonstrate phylosymbiosis and cophylogeny

FJ Pollock, R McMinds, S Smith, DG Bourne… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Scleractinian corals' microbial symbionts influence host health, yet how coral microbiomes
assembled over evolution is not well understood. We survey bacterial and archaeal …

Unprecedented disease-related coral mortality in Southeastern Florida

WF Precht, BE Gintert, ML Robbart, R Fura… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Anomalously high water temperatures, associated with climate change, are increasing the
global prevalence of coral bleaching, coral diseases, and coral-mortality events. Coral …

[HTML][HTML] Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases

F Keesing, LK Belden, P Daszak, A Dobson… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Current unprecedented declines in biodiversity reduce the ability of ecological communities
to provide many fundamental ecosystem services. Here we evaluate evidence that reduced …

Coral bacterial community structure responds to environmental change in a host-specific manner

M Ziegler, CGB Grupstra, MM Barreto, M Eaton… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The global decline of coral reefs heightens the need to understand how corals respond to
changing environmental conditions. Corals are metaorganisms, so-called holobionts, and …

Ecology of Endozoicomonadaceae in three coral genera across the Pacific Ocean

C Hochart, L Paoli, HJ Ruscheweyh, G Salazar… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Health and resilience of the coral holobiont depend on diverse bacterial communities often
dominated by key marine symbionts of the Endozoicomonadaceae family. The factors …

Gastrointestinal microbiome signatures of pediatric patients with irritable bowel syndrome

DM Saulnier, K Riehle, TA Mistretta, MA Diaz… - Gastroenterology, 2011 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND & AIMS: The intestinal microbiomes of healthy children and pediatric
patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are not well defined. Studies in adults have …

Competition for light causes plant biodiversity loss after eutrophication

Y Hautier, PA Niklaus, A Hector - Science, 2009 - science.org
Human activities have increased the availability of nutrients in terrestrial and aquatic
ecosystems. In grasslands, this eutrophication causes loss of plant species diversity, but the …

Microbial community shifts associated with the ongoing stony coral tissue loss disease outbreak on the Florida Reef Tract

JL Meyer, J Castellanos-Gell, GS Aeby… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
As many as 22 of the 45 coral species on the Florida Reef Tract are currently affected by
stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD). The ongoing disease outbreak was first observed …