Facultative lifestyle drives diversity of coral algal symbionts

D Bhattacharya, TG Stephens, EE Chille… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2024 - cell.com
The photosynthetic symbionts of corals sustain biodiverse reefs in nutrient-poor, tropical
waters. Recent genomic data illuminate the evolution of coral symbionts under genome size …

Gene duplication is the primary driver of intraspecific genomic divergence in coral algal symbionts

S Shah, KE Dougan, Y Chen… - Open …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Dinoflagellates in the order Suessiales include the family Symbiodiniaceae, which have
essential roles as photosymbionts in corals, and their cold-adapted sister group, Polarella …

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 …

Peeling back the layers of coral holobiont multi-omics data

A Williams, TG Stephens, A Shumaker, D Bhattacharya - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
The integration of multiple 'omics' datasets is a promising avenue for answering many
important and challenging questions in biology, particularly those relating to complex …

Contaminant or goldmine? In silico assessment of Symbiodiniaceae community using coral hologenomes

H Ishida, C Riginos, CX Chan - Frontiers in Protistology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Endosymbiotic dinoflagellates of the family Symbiodiniaceae are symbionts essential to
corals and other marine organisms. A coral holobiont consists of the coral host …

The exotic thymidine modification 5-hydroxymethyluridine in dinoflagellate Amphidinium carterae

C Li, Y Li, Y Wang, R Meng, X Shi, Y Zhang, N Liang… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Dinoflagellate chromosomes are extraordinary, as their organization is independent of
architectural nucleosomes unlike typical eukaryotes and shows a cholesteric liquid crystal …

Intraspecies genomic divergence of coral algal symbionts shaped by gene duplication

S Shah, KE Dougan, Y Chen, D Bhattacharya… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Abstract Dinoflagellates of Order Suessiales include the diverse Family Symbiodiniaceae
known for their role as essential coral reef symbionts, and the cold-adapted Polarella …