Frenemies on the reef? Resolving the coral–Endozoicomonas association

C Pogoreutz, M Ziegler - Trends in Microbiology, 2024 - cell.com
Stony corals are poster child holobionts due to their intimate association with diverse
microorganisms from all domains of life. We are only beginning to understand the diverse …

Impacts of marine heatwaves in coastal ecosystems depend on local environmental conditions

S Starko, M van der Mheen… - Global change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Marine heatwaves (MHWs), increasing in duration and intensity because of climate change,
are now a major threat to marine life and can have lasting effects on the structure and …

The 2014–2017 global-scale coral bleaching event: insights and impacts

CM Eakin, HPA Sweatman, RE Brainard - Coral Reefs, 2019 - Springer
2017 was an unprecedented period of successive record-breaking hot years, which
coincided with the most severe, widespread, and longest-lasting global-scale coral …

Transformation of coral communities subjected to an unprecedented heatwave is modulated by local disturbance

JK Baum, DC Claar, KL Tietjen, JMT Magel… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Corals are imminently threatened by climate change–amplified marine heatwaves.
However, how to conserve coral reefs remains unclear, since those without local …

Increased diversity and concordant shifts in community structure of coral‐associated Symbiodiniaceae and bacteria subjected to chronic human disturbance

DC Claar, JM McDevitt‐Irwin, M Garren… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Both coral‐associated bacteria and endosymbiotic algae (Symbiodiniaceae spp.) are vitally
important for the biological function of corals. Yet little is known about their co‐occurrence …

Microbiome environmental shifts differ between two co-occurring octocoral hosts

AM Reigel, ME Hellberg - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2023 - int-res.com
Corals harbor a complex suite of beneficial microbial symbionts. Shuffling the composition of
these symbionts could, in theory, help the host withstand rapidly emerging or geographically …

Reducing host DNA contamination in 16S rRNA gene surveys of anthozoan microbiomes using PNA clamps

AM Reigel, SM Owens, ME Hellberg - Coral Reefs, 2020 - Springer
Efforts to study the microbial communities associated with corals can be limited by
inefficiencies in the sequencing process due to high levels of host amplification by universal …

Chronic disturbance modulates symbiont (Symbiodiniaceae) beta diversity on a coral reef

DC Claar, KL Tietjen, KD Cox, RD Gates, JK Baum - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Chronic disturbance can disrupt ecological interactions including the foundational symbiosis
between reef-building corals and the dinoflagellate family Symbiodiniaceae …

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 …

Thermal stress interacts with surgeonfish feces to increase coral susceptibility to dysbiosis and reduce tissue regeneration

L Ezzat, S Merolla, CS Clements… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Dysbiosis of coral microbiomes results from various biotic and environmental stressors,
including interactions with important reef fishes which may act as vectors of opportunistic …