Microorganisms, climate change, and the Sustainable Development Goals: progress and challenges

JK Jansson - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
The forthcoming UN summit marks the halfway point to 2030 and presents an important
milestone in global efforts to address various challenges, including those related to climate …

Ecology of Endozoicomonadaceae in three coral genera across the Pacific Ocean

C Hochart, L Paoli, HJ Ruscheweyh, G Salazar… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Health and resilience of the coral holobiont depend on diverse bacterial communities often
dominated by key marine symbionts of the Endozoicomonadaceae family. The factors …

Diversity of the Pacific Ocean coral reef microbiome

PE Galand, HJ Ruscheweyh, G Salazar… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Coral reefs are among the most diverse ecosystems on Earth. They support high biodiversity
of multicellular organisms that strongly rely on associated microorganisms for health and …

The road forward to incorporate seawater microbes in predictive reef monitoring

M Terzin, PW Laffy, S Robbins, YK Yeoh… - Environmental …, 2024 - Springer
Marine bacterioplankton underpin the health and function of coral reefs and respond in a
rapid and sensitive manner to environmental changes that affect reef ecosystem stability …

Disparate genetic divergence patterns in three corals across a pan-Pacific environmental gradient highlight species-specific adaptation

CR Voolstra, BCC Hume, EJ Armstrong, G Mitushasi… - npj Biodiversity, 2023 - nature.com
Tropical coral reefs are among the most affected ecosystems by climate change and face
increasing loss in the coming decades. Effective conservation strategies that maximize …

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 …

Pervasive tandem duplications and convergent evolution shape coral genomes

B Noel, F Denoeud, A Rouan, C Buitrago-López… - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Background Over the last decade, several coral genomes have been sequenced allowing a
better understanding of these symbiotic organisms threatened by climate change …

the NEREa augmented Observatory: an integrative approach to marine coastal ecology

L Campese, L Russo, M Abagnale, A Alberti, G Bachi… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The NEREA (Naples Ecological REsearch for Augmented observatories) initiative
aims to establish an augmented observatory in the Gulf of Naples (GoN), designed to …

Telomere DNA length regulation is influenced by seasonal temperature differences in short-lived but not in long-lived reef-building corals

A Rouan, M Pousse, N Djerbi, B Porro… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Telomeres are environment-sensitive regulators of health and aging. Here, we present
telomere DNA length analysis of two reef-building coral genera revealing that the long-and …

A targeted approach to enrich host-associated bacteria for metagenomic sequencing

AM Dungan, K Tandon, V Jameson, CR Gotze… - FEMS …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Multicellular eukaryotic organisms are hosts to communities of bacteria that reside on or
inside their tissues. Often the eukaryotic members of the system contribute to high …