Ecology of Endozoicomonadaceae in three coral genera across the Pacific Ocean

C Hochart, L Paoli, HJ Ruscheweyh, G Salazar… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Health and resilience of the coral holobiont depend on diverse bacterial communities often
dominated by key marine symbionts of the Endozoicomonadaceae family. The factors …

Disparate genetic divergence patterns in three corals across a pan-Pacific environmental gradient highlight species-specific adaptation

CR Voolstra, BCC Hume, EJ Armstrong, G Mitushasi… - npj Biodiversity, 2023 - nature.com
Tropical coral reefs are among the most affected ecosystems by climate change and face
increasing loss in the coming decades. Effective conservation strategies that maximize …

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 …

Telomere DNA length regulation is influenced by seasonal temperature differences in short-lived but not in long-lived reef-building corals

A Rouan, M Pousse, N Djerbi, B Porro… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Telomeres are environment-sensitive regulators of health and aging. Here, we present
telomere DNA length analysis of two reef-building coral genera revealing that the long-and …

Widespread occurrence and diverse origins of polintoviruses influence lineage-specific genome dynamics in stony corals

D Stephens, Z Faghihi, M Moniruzzaman - Virus evolution, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Stony corals (Order: Scleractinia) are central to vital marine habitats known as coral
reefs. Numerous stressors in the Anthropocene are contributing to the ongoing decline in …

Interspecies differences in the transcriptome response of corals to acute heat stress

J Da-Anoy, N Posadas, C Conaco - PeerJ, 2024 - peerj.com
Rising sea surface temperatures threaten the survival of corals worldwide, with coral
bleaching events becoming more commonplace. However, different coral species are …

A draft genome assembly of the reef-building coral Acropora hemprichii from the central Red Sea

A Fiesinger, C Buitrago-López, A Sharaf, A Cárdenas… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Coral reef ecosystems are under threat from climate change. Thus, active interventions to
spur coral conservation/restoration are critical to support reef survival, greatly informed by a …

Copy number variation and population-specific immune genes in the model vertebrate zebrafish

Y Schäfer, K Palitzsch, M Leptin, AR Whiteley, T Wiehe… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Copy number variation in large gene families is well characterized for plant resistance
genes, but similar studies are rare in animals. The zebrafish (Danio rerio) has hundreds of …

Unlocking the treasure trove: leveraging dry coral specimens for museum genomics

MT Connelly, MG Catapang, AM Quattrini - Coral Reefs, 2024 - Springer
Natural history museums house the largest biodiversity collections in the world and
represent an enormous repository of genetic information. Much of this information, however …

LocoGSE, a sequence-based genome size estimator for plants

P Guenzi-Tiberi, B Istace, IG Alsos… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Extensive research has focused on exploring the range of genome sizes in eukaryotes, with
a particular emphasis on land plants, where significant variability has been observed …