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 …

Insights into the coral microbiome: underpinning the health and resilience of reef ecosystems

DG Bourne, KM Morrow… - Annual review of …, 2016‏ - annualreviews.org
Corals are fundamental ecosystem engineers, creating large, intricate reefs that support
diverse and abundant marine life. At the core of a healthy coral animal is a dynamic …

Fucoid brown algae inject fucoidan carbon into the ocean

H Buck-Wiese, MA Andskog, NP Nguyen… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - pnas.org
Brown algae annually convert gigatons of carbon dioxide into carbohydrates, including the
complex extracellular matrix polysaccharide fucoidan. Due to its persistence in the …

Responses of coral-associated bacterial communities to local and global stressors

JM McDevitt-Irwin, JK Baum, M Garren… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2017‏ - frontiersin.org
The microbial contribution to ecological resilience is still largely overlooked in coral reef
ecology. Coral-associated bacteria serve a wide variety of functional roles with reference to …

Microbial interactions with dissolved organic matter are central to coral reef ecosystem function and resilience

CE Nelson, L Wegley Kelly… - Annual Review of Marine …, 2023‏ - annualreviews.org
To thrive in nutrient-poor waters, coral reefs must retain and recycle materials efficiently. This
review centers microbial processes in facilitating the persistence and stability of coral reefs …

The microbiome of coral surface mucus has a key role in mediating holobiont health and survival upon disturbance

B Glasl, GJ Herndl, PR Frade - The ISME journal, 2016‏ - academic.oup.com
Microbes are well-recognized members of the coral holobiont. However, little is known about
the short-term dynamics of mucus-associated microbial communities under natural …

[HTML][HTML] Overfishing and nutrient pollution interact with temperature to disrupt coral reefs down to microbial scales

JR Zaneveld, DE Burkepile, AA Shantz… - Nature …, 2016‏ - nature.com
Losses of corals worldwide emphasize the need to understand what drives reef decline.
Stressors such as overfishing and nutrient pollution may reduce resilience of coral reefs by …

Rate and fate of dissolved organic carbon release by seaweeds: a missing link in the coastal ocean carbon cycle

ER Paine, M Schmid, PW Boyd… - Journal of …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) release by seaweeds (marine macroalgae) is a critical
component of the coastal ocean biogeochemical carbon cycle but is an aspect of seaweed …

Microbes in the coral holobiont: partners through evolution, development, and ecological interactions

JR Thompson, HE Rivera, CJ Closek… - Frontiers in cellular and …, 2015‏ - frontiersin.org
In the last two decades, genetic and genomic studies have revealed the astonishing
diversity and ubiquity of microorganisms. Emergence and expansion of the human …

Coral—the world's most diverse symbiotic ecosystem

LL Blackall, B Wilson, MJH van Oppen - Molecular ecology, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Zooxanthellate corals (ie those harbouring Symbiodinium) are the main builders of the
world's shallow‐water marine coral reefs. They represent intimate diverse symbioses …