Anthropogenic climate change and environmental degradation destroy coral reefs, the
ecosystem services they provide, and the livelihoods of close to a billion people who …

Viruses that infect microbial hosts have traditionally been studied in laboratory settings with
a focus on either obligate lysis or persistent lysogeny. In the environment, these infection …

Animals and plants are metaorganisms and associate with microbes that affect their
physiology, stress tolerance, and fitness. Here the hypothesis that alteration of the …

Symbiosis between dinoflagellates of the genus Symbiodinium and reef-building corals
forms the trophic foundation of the world's coral reef ecosystems. Here we present the first …

Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) was first documented in 2014 near the Port of
Miami, Florida, and has since spread north and south along Florida's Coral Reef, killing …

Symbiodiniaceae are a diverse family of marine dinoflagellates, well known as coral
endosymbionts. Isolation and in vitro culture of Symbiodiniaceae strains for physiological …

As climate change drives health declines of tropical reef species, diseases are further
eroding ecosystem function and habitat resilience. Coral disease impacts many areas …

Marine invertebrates are ecologically and economically important and have formed
holobionts by evolving symbiotic relationships with cellular and acellular microorganisms …

Filamentous viruses are hypothesized to play a role in stony coral tissue loss disease
(SCTLD) through infection of the endosymbiotic dinoflagellates (Family Symbiodiniaceae) of …

Elevated sea surface temperatures from a severe and prolonged El Niño event (2014–2016)
fueled by climate change have resulted in mass coral bleaching (loss of dinoflagellate …