Coral‐bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales

R Van Woesik, T Shlesinger, AG Grottoli… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The global impacts of climate change are evident in every marine ecosystem. On coral reefs,
mass coral bleaching and mortality have emerged as ubiquitous responses to ocean …

The past, present, and future of coral heat stress studies

MJ Cziesielski, S Schmidt‐Roach… - Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The global loss and degradation of coral reefs, as a result of intensified frequency and
severity of bleaching events, is a major concern. Evidence of heat stress affecting corals …

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 …

Enhancing the heat tolerance of reef-building corals to future warming

EJ Howells, D Abrego, YJ Liew, JA Burt, E Meyer… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Reef-building corals thriving in extreme thermal environments may provide genetic variation
that can assist the evolution of populations to rapid climate warming. However, the feasibility …

Gene expression associated with white syndromes in a reef building coral, Acropora hyacinthus

RM Wright, GV Aglyamova, E Meyer, MV Matz - BMC genomics, 2015 - Springer
Background Corals are capable of launching diverse immune defenses at the site of direct
contact with pathogens, but the molecular mechanisms of this activity and the colony-wide …

Profiling gene expression responses of coral larvae (Acropora millepora) to elevated temperature and settlement inducers using a novel RNA‐Seq procedure

E Meyer, GV Aglyamova, MV Matz - Molecular ecology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Elevated temperatures resulting from climate change pose a clear threat to reef‐building
corals; however, the traits that might influence corals' survival and dispersal during climate …

Global warming decreases connectivity among coral populations

J Figueiredo, CJ Thomas, E Deleersnijder… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Global warming is killing corals; however, the effects of warming on population connectivity,
a process fundamental to reef recovery, are largely unexplored. Using a high-resolution (as …

Gene expression under chronic heat stress in populations of the mustard hill coral (Porites astreoides) from different thermal environments

CD Kenkel, E Meyer, MV Matz - Molecular ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Recent evidence suggests that corals can acclimatize or adapt to local stress factors through
differential regulation of their gene expression. Profiling gene expression in corals from …

Insights into coral bleaching under heat stress from analysis of gene expression in a sea anemone model system

PA Cleves, CJ Krediet, EM Lehnert… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Loss of endosymbiotic algae (“bleaching”) under heat stress has become a major problem
for reef-building corals worldwide. To identify genes that might be involved in triggering or …

Coral thermal tolerance: tuning gene expression to resist thermal stress

AJ Bellantuono, C Granados-Cifuentes, DJ Miller… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
The acclimatization capacity of corals is a critical consideration in the persistence of coral
reefs under stresses imposed by global climate change. The stress history of corals plays a …