Unlocking the complex cell biology of coral–dinoflagellate symbiosis: A model systems approach

MR Jacobovitz, EA Hambleton… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Symbiotic interactions occur in all domains of life, providing organisms with resources to
adapt to new habitats. A prime example is the endosymbiosis between corals and …

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 …

Kingdom Chromista and its eight phyla: a new synthesis emphasising periplastid protein targeting, cytoskeletal and periplastid evolution, and ancient divergences

T Cavalier-Smith - Protoplasma, 2018 - Springer
In 1981 I established kingdom Chromista, distinguished from Plantae because of its more
complex chloroplast-associated membrane topology and rigid tubular multipartite ciliary …

The molecular language of the cnidarian–dinoflagellate symbiosis

SL Rosset, CA Oakley, C Ferrier-Pagès, DJ Suggett… - Trends in …, 2021 - cell.com
The cnidarian–dinoflagellate symbiosis is of huge importance as it underpins the success of
coral reefs, yet we know very little about how the host cnidarian and its dinoflagellate …

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 …

Cell biology of coral bleaching

CA Oakley, SK Davy - Coral bleaching: patterns, processes, causes and …, 2018 - Springer
Corals depend on a mutualistic symbiosis with intracellular dinoflagellates of the genus
Symbiodinium for their energetic needs. The high productivity of corals in a challenging …

Genomic signatures in the coral holobiont reveal host adaptations driven by Holocene climate change and reef specific symbionts

I Cooke, H Ying, S Forêt, P Bongaerts, JM Strugnell… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Genetic signatures caused by demographic and adaptive processes during past climatic
shifts can inform predictions of species' responses to anthropogenic climate change. To …

A Rhesus channel in the coral symbiosome membrane suggests a novel mechanism to regulate NH3 and CO2 delivery to algal symbionts

AB Thies, AR Quijada-Rodriguez, H Zhouyao… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Reef-building corals maintain an intracellular photosymbiotic association with dinoflagellate
algae. As the algae are hosted inside the symbiosome, all metabolic exchanges must take …

Broad scale proteomic analysis of heat-destabilised symbiosis in the hard coral Acropora millepora

K Petrou, BL Nunn, MP Padula, DJ Miller… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Coral reefs across the globe are threatened by warming oceans. The last few years have
seen the worst mass coral bleaching events recorded, with more than one quarter of all reefs …

Host-dependent nitrogen recycling as a mechanism of symbiont control in Aiptasia

G Cui, YJ Liew, Y Li, N Kharbatia, NI Zahran… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The metabolic symbiosis with photosynthetic algae allows corals to thrive in the oligotrophic
environments of tropical seas. Different aspects of this relationship have been investigated …