Deciphering coral disease dynamics: integrating host, microbiome, and the changing environment

R Vega Thurber, LD Mydlarz, M Brandt… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Diseases of tropical reef organisms is an intensive area of study, but despite significant
advances in methodology and the global knowledge base, identifying the proximate causes …

Probiotics for coral aquaculture: challenges and considerations

C Thatcher, L Høj, DG Bourne - Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Large-scale coral aquaculture is required to provide stock for reef restoration
efforts and the growing coral aquarium trade.•Probiotics can aid coral aquaculture through …

A meta-analysis of the stony coral tissue loss disease microbiome finds key bacteria in unaffected and lesion tissue in diseased colonies

SM Rosales, LK Huebner, JS Evans… - ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) has been causing significant whole colony mortality
on reefs in Florida and the Caribbean. The cause of SCTLD remains unknown, with the …

Microbial community and transcriptional responses to increased temperatures in coral Pocillopora damicornis holobiont

J Li, L Long, Y Zou, S Zhang - Environmental microbiology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A few studies have holistically examined successive changes in coral holobionts in
response to increased temperatures. Here, responses of the coral host Pocillopora …

Bacterial metabolic potential and micro-eukaryotes enriched in stony coral tissue loss disease lesions

SM Rosales, LK Huebner, AS Clark… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The epizootic disease outbreak known as stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is
arguably the most devastating coral disease in recorded history. SCTLD emerged off the …

Microbiome ecological memory and responses to repeated marine heatwaves clarify variation in coral bleaching and mortality

AD Vompe, HE Epstein, KE Speare… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Microbiomes are essential features of holobionts, providing their hosts with key metabolic
and functional traits like resistance to environmental disturbances and diseases. In …

Host traits and phylogeny contribute to sha** coral-bacterial symbioses

F Ricci, K Tandon, JR Black, KA Lê Cao, LL Blackall… - Msystems, 2022 - journals.asm.org
The success of tropical scleractinian corals depends on their ability to establish symbioses
with microbial partners. Host phylogeny and traits are known to shape the coral microbiome …

Identification of putative coral pathogens in endangered Caribbean staghorn coral using machine learning

JD Selwyn, BA Despard, MV Vollmer… - Environmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Coral diseases contribute to the rapid decline in coral reefs worldwide, and yet coral
bacterial pathogens have proved difficult to identify because 16S rRNA gene surveys …

Characterization of the microbiome of corals with stony coral tissue loss disease along Florida's coral reef

AS Clark, SD Williams, K Maxwell, SM Rosales… - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is an emergent and often lethal coral disease that
was first reported near Miami, FL (USA) in 2014. Our objective was to determine if coral …

Different disease inoculations cause common responses of the host immune system and prokaryotic component of the microbiome in Acropora palmata

BD Young, SM Rosales, IC Enochs, G Kolodziej… - PloS one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Reef-building corals contain a complex consortium of organisms, a holobiont, which
responds dynamically to disease, making pathogen identification difficult. While coral …