The vulnerability and resilience of reef-building corals

HM Putnam, KL Barott, TD Ainsworth, RD Gates - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Reef-building corals provide the foundation for the structural and biological diversity of coral-
reef ecosystems. These massive biological structures, which can be seen from space, are …

Progress and challenges in exploring aquatic microbial communities using non-targeted metabolomics

M Thukral, AE Allen, D Petras - The ISME Journal, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Advances in bioanalytical technologies are constantly expanding our insights into complex
ecosystems. Here, we highlight strategies and applications that make use of non-targeted …

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 …

Symbiotic dinoflagellate functional diversity mediates coral survival under ecological crisis

DJ Suggett, ME Warner, W Leggat - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2017 - cell.com
Coral reefs have entered an era of 'ecological crisis' as climate change drives catastrophic
reef loss worldwide. Coral growth and stress susceptibility are regulated by their …

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 …

Symbiodiniaceae photophysiology and stress resilience is enhanced by microbial associations

JL Matthews, L Hoch, JB Raina, M Pablo… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Symbiodiniaceae form associations with extra-and intracellular bacterial symbionts, both in
culture and in symbiosis with corals. Bacterial associates can regulate Symbiodiniaceae …

Partner switching and metabolic flux in a model cnidarian–dinoflagellate symbiosis

JL Matthews, CA Oakley, A Lutz… - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Metabolite exchange is fundamental to the viability of the cnidarian–Symbiodiniaceae
symbiosis and survival of coral reefs. Coral holobiont tolerance to environmental change …

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 …

Physiological stress response of the scleractinian coral Stylophora pistillata exposed to polyethylene microplastics

CM Lanctôt, VN Bednarz, S Melvin, H Jacob… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
We investigated physiological responses including calcification, photosynthesis and
alterations to polar metabolites, in the scleractinian coral Stylophora pistillata exposed to …

Dual RNA‐sequencing analyses of a coral and its native symbiont during the establishment of symbiosis

AR Mohamed, N Andrade, A Moya, CX Chan… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the ecological significance of the mutualistic relationship between Symbiodiniaceae
and reef‐building corals, the molecular interactions during establishment of this relationship …