Coral Disease: Direct and Indirect Agents, Mechanisms of Disease, and Innovations for Increasing Resistance and Resilience

RL Vega Thurber, D Silva, L Speare… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
As climate change drives health declines of tropical reef species, diseases are further
eroding ecosystem function and habitat resilience. Coral disease impacts many areas …

Advances in coral immunity 'omics in response to disease outbreaks

N Traylor-Knowles, AC Baker, KM Beavers… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Coral disease has progressively become one of the most pressing issues affecting coral reef
survival. In the last 50 years, several reefs throughout the Caribbean have been severely …

A coral-associated actinobacterium mitigates coral bleaching under heat stress

J Li, Y Zou, Q Li, J Zhang, DG Bourne, Y Lyu… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Background The positive effects of exposing corals to microorganisms have been reported
though how the benefits are conferred are poorly understood. Here, we isolated an …

Prokaryotic communities from a lava tube cave in La Palma Island (Spain) are involved in the biogeochemical cycle of major elements

JL Gonzalez-Pimentel, T Martin-Pozas, V Jurado… - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Lava caves differ from karstic caves in their genesis and mineral composition. Subsurface
microbiology of lava tube caves in Canary Islands, a volcanic archipelago in the Atlantic …

Bacterial and Symbiodiniaceae communities' variation in corals with distinct traits and geographical distribution

LB Villela, AW da Silva-Lima, APB Moreira… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Coral microbiomes play crucial roles in holobiont homeostasis and adaptation. The host's
ability to populate broad ecological niches and to cope with environmental changes seems …

Insights on the biochemical and cellular changes induced by heat stress in the Cladocopium isolated from coral Mussismilia braziliensis

MS Lima, L Hamerski, TA Silva, MLR da Cruz… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Corals are treatened by global warming. Bleaching is one immediate effect of global
warming, resulting from the loss of photosynthetic endosymbiont dinoflagellates …

Microbial tapestry of the Shulgan-Tash cave (Southern Ural, Russia): influences of environmental factors on the taxonomic composition of the cave biofilms

N Gogoleva, O Chervyatsova, A Balkin… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Background Cave biotopes are characterized by stable low temperatures, high humidity,
and scarcity of organic substrates. Despite the harsh oligotrophic conditions, they are often …

Different disease inoculations cause common responses of the host immune system and prokaryotic component of the microbiome in Acropora palmata

BD Young, SM Rosales, IC Enochs, G Kolodziej… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Reef-building corals contain a complex consortium of organisms, a holobiont, which
responds dynamically to disease, making pathogen identification difficult. While coral …

Microbial characterization of the first occurrence of White Plague disease in the endemic brain coral Mussismilia hispida at Alcatrazes Archipelago, Brazil

AA Zanotti, KCC Capel, MV Kitahara - Coral Reefs, 2024 - Springer
Endemic to the Brazilian fauna, the brain coral Mussismilia hispida is the second most
widespread zooxanthellate coral of the South-west Atlantic and, most importantly, is within …

Marine Bacterial Communities in the Xisha Islands, South China Sea

Y Wang, L Wang, Y Liu, S Su, W Hao - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
Oligotrophic marine environments are ecological funnels in marine ecosystems and are
essential for maintaining the health and balance of the entire marine ecosystem. Bacterial …