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 …

Symbiotic dinoflagellate functional diversity mediates coral survival under ecological crisis

DJ Suggett, ME Warner, W Leggat - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2017 - cell.com
Coral reefs have entered an era of 'ecological crisis' as climate change drives catastrophic
reef loss worldwide. Coral growth and stress susceptibility are regulated by their …

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 …

Nutrient enrichment can increase the susceptibility of reef corals to bleaching

J Wiedenmann, C D'Angelo, EG Smith, AN Hunt… - Nature Climate …, 2013 - nature.com
Mass coral bleaching, resulting from the breakdown of coral–algal symbiosis has been
identified as the most severe threat to coral reef survival on a global scale. Regionally …

Climate change disables coral bleaching protection on the Great Barrier Reef

TD Ainsworth, SF Heron, JC Ortiz, PJ Mumby, A Grech… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Coral bleaching events threaten the sustainability of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). Here we
show that bleaching events of the past three decades have been mitigated by induced …

Eighteen Coral Genomes Reveal the Evolutionary Origin of Acropora Strategies to Accommodate Environmental Changes

C Shinzato, K Khalturin, J Inoue… - Molecular biology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The genus Acropora comprises the most diverse and abundant scleractinian corals
(Anthozoa, Cnidaria) in coral reefs, the most diverse marine ecosystems on Earth. However …

Excess algal symbionts increase the susceptibility of reef corals to bleaching

R Cunning, AC Baker - Nature Climate Change, 2013 - nature.com
Rising ocean temperatures associated with global climate change are causing mass coral
bleaching and mortality worldwide. Understanding the genetic and environmental factors …

Coral bleaching from a single cell perspective

DA Nielsen, K Petrou, RD Gates - The ISME journal, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Ocean warming is resulting in increased occurrence of mass coral bleaching; a response in
which the intracellular algal endosymbionts (Symbiodinium sp.) are expelled from the coral …

Coral gasdermin triggers pyroptosis

S Jiang, Z Zhou, Y Sun, T Zhang, L Sun - Science Immunology, 2020 - science.org
Gasdermins are executioners of the inflammatory cell death pathway pyroptosis that has so
far been studied exclusively in vertebrates. In this study, we identified gasdermin E (GSDME) …

Cell biology of coral bleaching

CA Oakley, SK Davy - Coral bleaching: patterns, processes, causes and …, 2018 - Springer
Corals depend on a mutualistic symbiosis with intracellular dinoflagellates of the genus
Symbiodinium for their energetic needs. The high productivity of corals in a challenging …