The reemergence of phycopathology: When algal biology meets ecology and biosecurity

P Murúa, A Garvetto, S Egan… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Viruses, bacteria, and eukaryotic symbionts interact with algae in a variety of ways to cause
disease complexes, often shaping marine and freshwater ecosystems. The advent of …

Opportunistic diseases in marine eukaryotes: Could Bacteroidota be the next threat to ocean life?

J Hudson, S Egan - Environmental Microbiology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bacteria within the phylum Bacteroidota (Bacteroidetes) are known to cause devastating and
widespread disease outbreaks in marine eukaryotic hosts. However, with few pathogens …

Metagenomic insights into the taxonomy, function, and dysbiosis of prokaryotic communities in octocorals

T Keller-Costa, A Lago-Lestón, JP Saraiva, R Toscan… - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background In octocorals (Cnidaria Octocorallia), the functional relationship
between host health and its symbiotic consortium has yet to be determined. Here, we …

Bacterial controlled mitigation of dysbiosis in a seaweed disease

J Li, ME Majzoub, EM Marzinelli, Z Dai… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Disease in the marine environment is predicted to increase with anthropogenic stressors
and already affects major habitat-formers, such as corals and seaweeds. Solutions to …

Comparative genomic analysis of Flavobacteriaceae: insights into carbohydrate metabolism, gliding motility and secondary metabolite biosynthesis

A Gavriilidou, J Gutleben, D Versluis, F Forgiarini… - BMC genomics, 2020 - Springer
Background Members of the bacterial family Flavobacteriaceae are widely distributed in the
marine environment and often found associated with algae, fish, detritus or marine …

Salinity and host drive Ulva‐associated bacterial communities across the Atlantic–Baltic Sea gradient

LM Van der Loos, S D'hondt, AH Engelen… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The green seaweed Ulva is a model system to study seaweed–bacteria interactions, but the
impact of environmental drivers on the dynamics of these interactions is little understood. In …

Comparative genomics reveals complex natural product biosynthesis capacities and carbon metabolism across host‐associated and free‐living Aquimarina …

SG Silva, J Blom, T Keller‐Costa… - Environmental …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This study determines the natural product biosynthesis and full coding potential within the
bacterial genus Aquimarina. Using comprehensive phylogenomics and functional genomics …

Shell disease syndromes of decapod crustaceans

AF Rowley, CJ Coates - Environmental Microbiology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The term shell disease subsumes a number of debilitating conditions affecting the outer
integument (the carapace) of decapod crustaceans, such as lobsters and crabs. Herein, we …

A journey with type IX secretion system effectors: selection, transport, processing and activities

M Paillat, I Lunar Silva, E Cascales… - Microbiology, 2023 - microbiologyresearch.org
The type IX secretion system (T9SS) is a multiprotein machine distributed in Bacteroidota
and responsible for the secretion of various proteins across the outer membrane. Secreted …

[HTML][HTML] Carapace microbiota in American lobsters (Homarus americanus) associated with epizootic shell disease and the green gland

A Schaubeck, D Cao, V Cavaleri, S Mun… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Epizootic Shell Disease (ESD) has posed a great threat, both ecologically and economically,
to the American lobster population of Long Island Sound since its emergence in the late …