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 …

Coral bleaching patterns are the outcome of complex biological and environmental networking

DJ Suggett, DJ Smith - Global Change Biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Continued declines in coral reef health over the past three decades have been punctuated
by severe mass coral bleaching‐induced mortality events that have grown in intensity and …

Genomic basis for coral resilience to climate change

DJ Barshis, JT Ladner, TA Oliver… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Recent advances in DNA-sequencing technologies now allow for in-depth characterization
of the genomic stress responses of many organisms beyond model taxa. They are especially …

Signatures of selection underpinning rapid coral adaptation to the world's warmest reefs

EG Smith, KM Hazzouri, JY Choi, P Delaney… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Coral populations in the world's warmest reefs, the Persian/Arabian Gulf (PAG), represent an
ideal model system to understand the evolutionary response of coral populations to past and …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the impacts of sediments from dredging on corals

R Jones, P Bessell-Browne, R Fisher… - Marine Pollution …, 2016 - Elsevier
There is a need to develop water quality thresholds for dredging near coral reefs that can
relate physical pressures to biological responses and define exposure conditions above …

Meta‐analysis of the coral environmental stress response: Acropora corals show opposing responses depending on stress intensity

G Dixon, E Abbott, M Matz - Molecular Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
As climate change progresses, reef‐building corals must contend more often with
suboptimal conditions, motivating a need to understand coral stress response. Here, we test …

Impacts of turbidity on corals: The relative importance of light limitation and suspended sediments

P Bessell-Browne, AP Negri, R Fisher, PL Clode… - Marine Pollution …, 2017 - Elsevier
As part of an investigation of the effects of water quality from dredging/natural resuspension
on reefs, the effects of suspended sediment concentrations (SSCs)(0, 30, 100 mg L− 1) and …

[HTML][HTML] Symbiosis maintenance in the facultative coral, Oculina arbuscula, relies on nitrogen cycling, cell cycle modulation, and immunity

HE Rivera, SW Davies - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Symbiosis with unicellular algae in the family Symbiodiniaceae is common across tropical
marine invertebrates. Reef-building corals offer a clear example of cellular dysfunction …

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] Cnidarian-Symbiodiniaceae symbiosis establishment is independent of photosynthesis

RE Jinkerson, JA Russo, CR Newkirk, AL Kirk, RJ Chi… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Photosynthesis shapes the symbiotic relationships between cnidarians and
Symbiodiniaceae algae—with many cnidarian hosts requiring symbiont photosynthate for …