Deciphering coral disease dynamics: integrating host, microbiome, and the changing environment

R Vega Thurber, LD Mydlarz, M Brandt… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Diseases of tropical reef organisms is an intensive area of study, but despite significant
advances in methodology and the global knowledge base, identifying the proximate causes …

A role for bacterial experimental evolution in coral bleaching mitigation?

J Maire, MJH van Oppen - Trends in microbiology, 2022 - cell.com
Coral reefs are rapidly declining because of widespread mass coral bleaching causing
extensive coral mortality. Elevated seawater temperatures are the main drivers of coral …

Viruses in marine invertebrate holobionts: Complex interactions between phages and bacterial symbionts

K Zhou, T Zhang, XW Chen, Y Xu… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Marine invertebrates are ecologically and economically important and have formed
holobionts by evolving symbiotic relationships with cellular and acellular microorganisms …

[HTML][HTML] A global synthesis of the current knowledge on the taxonomic and geographic distribution of major coral diseases

J Morais, APLR Cardoso, BA Santos - Environmental Advances, 2022 - Elsevier
Although knowledge on the diseases affecting corals has been accumulating exponentially
since the 2000s, even more effort is required to summarize and guide further investigation …

Cryptic Diversity of Black Band Disease Cyanobacteria in Siderastrea siderea Corals Revealed by Chemical Ecology and Comparative Genome-Resolved …

JL Meyer, SP Gunasekera, AL Brown, Y Ding, S Miller… - Marine drugs, 2023 - mdpi.com
Black band disease is a globally distributed and easily recognizable coral disease. Despite
years of study, the etiology of this coral disease, which impacts dozens of stony coral …

Ecological and molecular characterization of a coral black band disease outbreak in the Red Sea during a bleaching event

G Hadaidi, M Ziegler, A Shore-Maggio, T Jensen… - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
Black Band Disease (BBD) is a widely distributed and destructive coral disease that has
been studied on a global scale, but baseline data on coral diseases is missing from many …

Dynamics of bacterial communities on coral reefs: implications for conservation

RL Maher, HE Epstein, R Vega Thurber - … and restoration in the omics age, 2022 - Springer
Corals associate with a diverse assemblage of microorganisms, which collectively support
the engineering of coral reefs. As reef ecosystems are experiencing unprecedented and …

Succession and spread of coral diseases and coral-killing sponges with special reference to microbes in Southeast Asia and adjacent waters

H Yamashiro, N Wada, SL Tang - Coral reefs of Eastern Asia under …, 2023 - Springer
Corals and coral-associated organisms are threatened by repeated bleaching events and
anthropogenic stresses, resulting in mass mortality and property loss (including foods …

[HTML][HTML] Host-specific epibiomes of distinct Acropora cervicornis genotypes persist after field transplantation

EG Aguirre, WC Million, E Bartels, CJ Krediet… - Coral Reefs, 2022 - Springer
Microbiome studies across taxa have established the influence of host genotype on
microbial recruitment and maintenance. However, research exploring host-specific epibionts …

[HTML][HTML] The cellular stress response of the scleractinian coral Goniopora columna during the progression of the black band disease

D Seveso, S Montano, MAL Reggente… - Cell Stress and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Black band disease (BBD) is a widespread coral pathology caused by a microbial
consortium dominated by cyanobacteria, which is significantly contributing to the loss of …