Divergent expression of hypoxia response systems under deoxygenation in reef‐forming corals aligns with bleaching susceptibility

R Alderdice, DJ Suggett, A Cárdenas… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Exposure of marine life to low oxygen is accelerating worldwide via climate change and
localized pollution. Mass coral bleaching and mortality have recently occurred where reefs …

[HTML][HTML] Deoxygenation lowers the thermal threshold of coral bleaching

R Alderdice, G Perna, A Cárdenas, BCC Hume… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Exposure to deoxygenation from climate warming and pollution is emerging as a
contributing factor of coral bleaching and mortality. However, the combined effects of heating …

[HTML][HTML] Differential susceptibility of reef-building corals to deoxygenation reveals remarkable hypoxia tolerance

MD Johnson, SD Swaminathan, EN Nixon, VJ Paul… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Ocean deoxygenation threatens the persistence of coastal ecosystems worldwide. Despite
an increasing awareness that coastal deoxygenation impacts tropical habitats, there …

Coral reef survival under accelerating ocean deoxygenation

DJ Hughes, R Alderdice, C Cooney, M Kühl… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Global warming and local eutrophication simultaneously lower oxygen (O2) saturation and
increase biological O2 demands to cause deoxygenation. Tropical shallow waters, and their …

Transcriptomic responses to darkness stress point to common coral bleaching mechanisms

MK DeSalvo, A Estrada, S Sunagawa, M Medina - Coral Reefs, 2012 - Springer
Coral bleaching occurs in response to numerous abiotic stressors, the ecologically most
relevant of which is hyperthermic stress due to increasing seawater temperatures. Bleaching …

Tidal heat pulses on a reef trigger a fine-tuned transcriptional response in corals to maintain homeostasis

LJ Ruiz-Jones, SR Palumbi - Science advances, 2017 - science.org
For reef-building corals, extreme stress exposure can result in loss of endosymbionts,
leaving colonies bleached. However, corals in some habitats are commonly exposed to …

[HTML][HTML] Early transcriptional changes in the reef-building coral Acropora aspera in response to thermal and nutrient stress

N Rosic, P Kaniewska, CKK Chan, EYS Ling… - BMC genomics, 2014 - Springer
Background Changes to the environment as a result of human activities can result in a range
of impacts on reef building corals that include coral bleaching (reduced concentrations of …

Increasing hypoxia on global coral reefs under ocean warming

AK Pezner, TA Courtney, HC Barkley, WC Chou… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Ocean deoxygenation is predicted to threaten marine ecosystems globally. However, current
and future oxygen concentrations and the occurrence of hypoxic events on coral reefs …

Heritable variation in bleaching responses and its functional genomic basis in reef‐building corals (Orbicella faveolata)

KE Dziedzic, H Elder, H Tavalire, E Meyer - Molecular Ecology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Reef‐building corals are highly sensitive to rising ocean temperatures, and substantial
adaptation will be required for corals and the ecosystems they support to persist in changing …

Insights into coral bleaching under heat stress from analysis of gene expression in a sea anemone model system

PA Cleves, CJ Krediet, EM Lehnert… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Loss of endosymbiotic algae (“bleaching”) under heat stress has become a major problem
for reef-building corals worldwide. To identify genes that might be involved in triggering or …