Lineage-specific symbionts mediate differential coral responses to thermal stress
Background Ocean warming is a leading cause of increasing episodes of coral bleaching, the dissociation between coral hosts and their dinoflagellate algal symbionts in the family Symbiodiniaceae.
Chenying Wang +7 more
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What is a hologenomic adaptation? Emergent individuality and inter-identity in multispecies systems [PDF]
Contemporary biological research has suggested that some host–microbiome multispecies systems (referred to as “holobionts”) can in certain circumstances evolve as unique biological individual, thus being a unit of selection in evolution.
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Evidence for phosphonate usage in the coral holobiont [PDF]
Abstract Phosphonates are characterized by a stable carbon–phosphorus bond and commonly occur as lipid conjugates in invertebrate cell membranes. Phosphonoacetate hydrolase encoded by the phnA gene, catalyses the cleavage of phosphonoacetate to acetate and phosphate.
Thomas, S. +8 more
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Extending the natural adaptive capacity of coral holobionts
C.R.V. acknowledges funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) (grants 433042944 and 458901010). R.S.P. acknowledges funding from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (grant FCC/1/1973-51-01). J.E.P. acknowledges funding from the University of South Florida Research & Innovation Internal Awards Program (grant 0142687).
Christian R. Voolstra +10 more
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Climate change promotes parasitism in a coral symbiosis. [PDF]
Coastal oceans are increasingly eutrophic, warm and acidic through the addition of anthropogenic nitrogen and carbon, respectively. Among the most sensitive taxa to these changes are scleractinian corals, which engineer the most biodiverse ecosystems on ...
AE Douglas +52 more
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Limited influence of seasonality on coral microbiomes and endosymbionts in an equatorial reef
Coral-associated bacteria and Symbiodiniaceae are critical for maintaining the health of their coral hosts. Factors that are known to affect the coral microbiome include biogeography, seasonality, and environmental change, but longitudinal studies are ...
Z.B. Randolph Quek +9 more
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Reef-building corals owe much of their success to a symbiosis with dinoflagellate microalgae in the genus Symbiodinium. In this association, the performance of each organism is tied to that of its partner, and together the partners form a holobiont that
John Everett Parkinson, Iliana B Baums
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Multi-omics determination of metabolome diversity in natural coral populations in the Pacific Ocean
Coral reefs are considered one of the most emblematic ecosystems in our oceans, but their existence is increasingly threatened by climate change. In this study, natural populations of two reef-building coral genera, Pocillopora spp. and Porites spp., and
Maggie M. Reddy +31 more
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Marinomonas brasilensis sp. nov., isolated from the coral Mussismilia hispida, and reclassification of Marinomonas basaltis as a later heterotypic synonym of Marinomonas communis [PDF]
A Gram-negative, aerobic bacterium, designated strain R-40503(T), was isolated from mucus of the reef-builder coral Mussismilia hispida, located in the Sao Sebastiao Channel, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Coral reef science is a fast-growing field propelled by the need to better understand coral health and resilience to devise strategies to slow reef loss resulting from environmental stresses.
Caroline Belser +51 more
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