Reconciling the variability in the biological response of marine invertebrates to climate change

Z Dellaert, HM Putnam - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
As climate change increases the rate of environmental change and the frequency and
intensity of disturbance events, selective forces intensify. However, given the complicated …

Expression plasticity regulates intraspecific variation in the acclimatization potential of a reef-building coral

C Drury, J Dilworth, E Majerová, C Caruso… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Phenotypic plasticity is an important ecological and evolutionary response for organisms
experiencing environmental change, but the ubiquity of this capacity within coral species …

Divergent bleaching and recovery trajectories in reef-building corals following a decade of successive marine heatwaves

KT Brown, EA Lenz, BH Glass… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Increasingly frequent marine heatwaves are devastating coral reefs. Corals that survive
these extreme events must rapidly recover if they are to withstand subsequent events, and …

Host transcriptomic plasticity and photosymbiotic fidelity underpin Pocillopora acclimatization across thermal regimes in the Pacific Ocean

EJ Armstrong, J Lê-Hoang, Q Carradec… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Heat waves are causing declines in coral reefs globally. Coral thermal responses depend
on multiple, interacting drivers, such as past thermal exposure, endosymbiont community …

Algal symbiont genera but not coral host genotypes correlate to stony coral tissue loss disease susceptibility among Orbicella faveolata colonies in South Florida

AM Klein, AB Sturm, RJ Eckert, BK Walker… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) has spread throughout the entirety of Florida's
Coral Reef (FCR) and across the Caribbean, impacting at least 30 coral species. The …

Genetic patterns in Montipora capitata across an environmental mosaic in Kāne'ohe Bay, O'ahu, Hawai'i

C Caruso, M Rocha de Souza, L Ruiz‐Jones… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial genetic structure (SGS) is important to a population's ability to adapt to
environmental change. For species that reproduce both sexually and asexually, the relative …

The costs and benefits of environmental memory for reef-building corals coping with recurring marine heatwaves

KT Brown, KL Barott - Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Marine heatwaves are occurring more frequently as climate change intensifies, resulting in
global mass coral bleaching events several times per decade. Despite the time between …

Thermal tolerance traits of individual corals are widely distributed across the Great Barrier Reef

H Denis, LK Bay, VJL Mocellin… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Adaptation of reef-building corals to global warming depends upon standing heritable
variation in tolerance traits upon which selection can act. Yet limited knowledge exists on …

Variability in thermal tolerance of clutches from different mothers indicates adaptation potential to climate warming in sea turtles

C Kynoch, FV Paladino, JR Spotila… - Global change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The current climate warming is a challenge to biodiversity that could surpass the adaptation
capacity of some species. Hence, understanding the means by which populations undergo …

A phenomic modeling approach for using chlorophyll-a fluorescence-based measurements on coral photosymbionts

KD Hoadley, G Lockridge, A McQuagge… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
We test a newly developed instrument prototype which utilizes time-resolved chlorophyll-a
fluorescence techniques and fluctuating light to characterize Symbiodiniaceae functional …