Global warming and local eutrophication simultaneously lower oxygen (O2) saturation and
increase biological O2 demands to cause deoxygenation. Tropical shallow waters, and their …

Coral reef ecosystems thrive in tropical oligotrophic oceans because of the relationship
between corals and endosymbiotic dinoflagellate algae called Symbiodinium …

Global change includes alterations in ocean temperature, oxygen availability, salinity, and
pH, abiotic variables with strong and interacting influences on the physiology of all taxa …

Transcriptome and genome data from twenty stony coral species and a selection of
reference bilaterians were studied to elucidate coral evolutionary history. We identified …

Determining the drivers of gene expression patterns is more straightforward in laboratory
conditions than in the complex fluctuating environments where organisms typically live. We …

Reef-building corals maintain an intracellular photosymbiotic association with dinoflagellate
algae. As the algae are hosted inside the symbiosome, all metabolic exchanges must take …

Exposure of marine life to low oxygen is accelerating worldwide via climate change and
localized pollution. Mass coral bleaching and mortality have recently occurred where reefs …

Wild populations increasingly experience extreme conditions as climate change amplifies
environmental variability. How individuals respond to environmental extremes determines …

The success of any symbiosis under stress conditions is dependent upon the responses of
both partners to that stress. The coral symbiosis is particularly susceptible to small increases …

Survival of free-living and symbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium spp.) in coral reefs is
critical to the maintenance of a healthy coral community. Most coral reefs exist in oligotrophic …