Stony corals, the engines and engineers of reef ecosystems, face unprecedented threats
from anthropogenic environmental change. Corals are holobionts that comprise the …

The environmental niche concept describes the distribution of a taxon in the environment
and can be used to understand community dynamics, biological invasions, and the impact of …

Stony corals are poster child holobionts due to their intimate association with diverse
microorganisms from all domains of life. We are only beginning to understand the diverse …

Health and resilience of the coral holobiont depend on diverse bacterial communities often
dominated by key marine symbionts of the Endozoicomonadaceae family. The factors …

Beneficial microorganisms for corals (BMCs) have been demonstrated to be effective
probiotics to alleviate bleaching and mitigate coral mortality in vivo. The selection of putative …

Marine microbiomes are prolific sources of bioactive natural products of potential
pharmaceutical value. This study inspected two culture collections comprising 919 host …

A limited number of bacteria are able to colonize the nuclei of eukaryotes.'Candidatus
Endonucleobacter'infects the nuclei of deep-sea mussels, where it replicates to≥ 80,000 …

Multicellular eukaryotic organisms are hosts to communities of bacteria that reside on or
inside their tissues. Often the eukaryotic members of the system contribute to high …

Chitin is the second largest biomass on Earth; however, chitinous waste is not well recycled
by humans. Specifically, physicochemical methods cause pollution and newly developed …

Sulfitobacter is one of the major sulfite-oxidizing alphaproteobacterial groups and is often
associated with marine algae and corals. Their association with the eukaryotic host cell may …