Octocorals are one of the most ubiquitous benthic organisms in marine ecosystems from the
shallow tropics to the Antarctic deep sea, providing habitat for numerous organisms as well …

Unlike reef-building, scleractinian corals, Caribbean soft corals (octocorals) have not
suffered marked declines in abundance associated with anthropogenic ocean warming …

Coral reef ecosystems depend on symbiosis between dinoflagellates of the genus
Symbiodinium Freudenthal and their various hosts. The physiological characteristics …

Coral reefs throughout the tropics have experienced large declines in the abundance of
scleractinian corals over the last few decades, and some reefs are becoming functionally …

Ocean warming and other anthropogenic stresses threaten the symbiosis between tropical
reef cnidarians and their dinoflagellate endosymbionts (Symbiodinium). Offspring of many …

Global climate change not only leads to elevated seawater temperatures but also to episodic
anomalously high or low temperatures lasting for several hours to days. Scleractinian corals …

Symbiotic associations, widespread in terrestrial and marine ecosystems, are of
considerable ecological importance. Many tropical coral species are holobionts, formed by …

Despite the importance of cnidarian-algal symbioses for the reef ecosystem, little is known of
the pattern of symbiont acquisition in juvenile octocorals and how this varies across time and …

Ancient DNA (aDNA) provides powerful evidence for detecting the genetic basis for
adaptation to environmental change in many taxa. Among the greatest of changes in our …

The ability of coral reefs to recover from natural and anthropogenic disturbance is difficult to
predict, in part due to uncertainty regarding the dispersal capabilities and connectivity of …