Help me, symbionts, you're my only hope: Approaches to accelerate our understanding of coral holobiont interactions

CB Bove, MV Ingersoll… - … and Comparative Biology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Tropical corals construct the three-dimensional framework for one of the most diverse
ecosystems on the planet, providing habitat to a plethora of species across taxa. However …

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 …

A k-mer-Based Approach for Phylogenetic Classification of Taxa in Environmental Genomic Data

J Van Etten, TG Stephens, D Bhattacharya - Systematic biology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In the age of genome sequencing, whole-genome data is readily and frequently generated,
leading to a wealth of new information that can be used to advance various fields of …

Develo** model systems for dinoflagellates in the post‐genomic era

H Ishida, U John, SA Murray… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Dinoflagellates are a diverse group of eukaryotic microbes that are ubiquitous in aquatic
environments. Largely photosynthetic, they encompass symbiotic, parasitic, and free‐living …

Multi-omics analysis reveals the molecular response to heat stress in a “red tide” dinoflagellate

KE Dougan, ZL Deng, L Wöhlbrand, C Reuse, B Bunk… - Genome biology, 2023 - Springer
Background “Red tides” are harmful algal blooms caused by dinoflagellate microalgae that
accumulate toxins lethal to other organisms, including humans via consumption of …

Alignment-free analysis of whole-genome sequences from Symbiodiniaceae reveals different phylogenetic signals in distinct regions

R Lo, KE Dougan, Y Chen, S Shah… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Dinoflagellates of the family Symbiodiniaceae are predominantly essential symbionts of
corals and other marine organisms. Recent research reveals extensive genome sequence …

[HTML][HTML] Improved Cladocopium goreaui Genome Assembly Reveals Features of a Facultative Coral Symbiont and the Complex Evolutionary History of Dinoflagellate …

Y Chen, S Shah, KE Dougan, MJH van Oppen… - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Dinoflagellates of the family Symbiodiniaceae are crucial photosymbionts in corals and
other marine organisms. Of these, Cladocopium goreaui is one of the most dominant …

Exchange or Eliminate: The Secrets of Algal-Bacterial Relationships

B Burgunter-Delamare, P Shetty, T Vuong, M Mittag - Plants, 2024 - mdpi.com
Algae and bacteria have co-occurred and coevolved in common habitats for hundreds of
millions of years, fostering specific associations and interactions such as mutualism or …

Evolutionary responses of a reef-building coral to climate change at the end of the last glacial maximum

J Zhang, ZT Richards, AAS Adam… - Molecular Biology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Climate change threatens the survival of coral reefs on a global scale, primarily through
mass bleaching and mortality as a result of marine heatwaves. While these short-term effects …

Whole-genome duplication in an algal symbiont bolsters coral heat tolerance

KE Dougan, AJ Bellantuono, T Kahlke… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The algal endosymbiont Durusdinium trenchii enhances the resilience of coral reefs under
thermal stress. D. trenchii can live freely or in endosymbiosis, and the analysis of genetic …