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 …

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‐bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales

R Van Woesik, T Shlesinger, AG Grottoli… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The global impacts of climate change are evident in every marine ecosystem. On coral reefs,
mass coral bleaching and mortality have emerged as ubiquitous responses to ocean …

The coral microbiome: towards an understanding of the molecular mechanisms of coral–microbiota interactions

AR Mohamed, MA Ochsenkühn… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Corals live in a complex, multipartite symbiosis with diverse microbes across kingdoms,
some of which are implicated in vital functions, such as those related to resilience against …

Fast and pervasive transcriptomic resilience and acclimation of extremely heat-tolerant coral holobionts from the northern Red Sea

R Savary, DJ Barshis, CR Voolstra, A Cárdenas… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
Corals from the northern Red Sea and Gulf of Aqaba exhibit extreme thermal tolerance. To
examine the underlying gene expression dynamics, we exposed Stylophora pistillata from …

Integrating cryptic diversity into coral evolution, symbiosis and conservation

CGB Grupstra, M Gómez-Corrales, JE Fifer… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding how diversity evolves and is maintained is critical to predicting the future
trajectories of ecosystems under climate change; however, our understanding of these …

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 …

Symbioses are restructured by repeated mass coral bleaching

KM Quigley, B Ramsby, P Laffy, J Harris… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Survival of symbiotic reef-building corals under global warming requires rapid acclimation or
adaptation. The impact of accumulated heat stress was compared across 1643 symbiont …

The Coral Bleaching Automated Stress System (CBASS): A low‐cost, portable system for standardized empirical assessments of coral thermal limits

NR Evensen, KE Parker, TA Oliver… - Limnology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean warming is increasingly affecting marine ecosystems across the globe. Reef‐building
corals are particularly affected by warming, with mass bleaching events increasing in …

Empirically derived thermal thresholds of four coral species along the Red Sea using a portable and standardized experimental approach

NR Evensen, CR Voolstra, M Fine, G Perna… - Coral Reefs, 2022 - Springer
Global warming is causing an unprecedented loss of species and habitats worldwide. This is
particularly apparent for tropical coral reefs, with an increasing number of reefs experiencing …