The seaweed holobiont: understanding seaweed–bacteria interactions

S Egan, T Harder, C Burke, P Steinberg… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Seaweeds (macroalgae) form a diverse and ubiquitous group of photosynthetic organisms
that play an essential role in aquatic ecosystems. These ecosystem engineers contribute …

Population genetics of reef coral endosymbionts (Symbiodinium, Dinophyceae)

DJ Thornhill, EJ Howells, DC Wham… - Molecular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Symbiodinium is a diverse genus of unicellular dinoflagellate symbionts associating with
various marine protists and invertebrates. Although the broadscale diversity and …

Building consensus around the assessment and interpretation of Symbiodiniaceae diversity

SW Davies, MH Gamache, LI Howe-Kerr, NG Kriefall… - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
Dinoflagellates in the family Symbiodiniaceae occupy multiple ecological niches on tropical,
subtropical, and temperate reefs, ranging from species that are exclusively free-living to …

Evidence for a host role in thermotolerance divergence between populations of the mustard hill coral (Porites astreoides) from different reef environments

CD Kenkel, G Goodbody‐Gringley… - Molecular …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Studying the mechanisms that enable coral populations to inhabit spatially varying thermal
environments can help evaluate how they will respond in time to the effects of global climate …

Miliolidium n. gen, a New Symbiodiniacean Genus Whose Members Associate with Soritid Foraminifera or Are Free‐Living

X Pochon, TC LaJeunesse - Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The dinoflagellate family Symbiodiniaceae comprises numerous divergent genera
containing species whose ecologies range from endosymbiotic to free‐living. While many …

Description of Freudenthalidium gen. nov. and Halluxium gen. nov. to Formally Recognize Clades Fr3 and H as Genera in the Family Symbiodiniaceae …

MR Nitschke, SC Craveiro, C Brandão… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The Symbiodiniaceae are a family of marine dinoflagellates known mostly for their
endosymbiotic interactions with invertebrates and protists, but facultatively and exclusively …

Unlocking the phylogenetic diversity, primary habitats, and abundances of free‐living Symbiodiniaceae on a coral reef

L Fujise, DJ Suggett, M Stat, T Kahlke… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Dinoflagellates of the family Symbiodiniaceae form mutualistic symbioses with marine
invertebrates such as reef‐building corals, but also inhabit reef environments as free‐living …

Most Low-Abundance “Background” Symbiodinium spp. Are Transitory and Have Minimal Functional Significance for Symbiotic Corals

MJ Lee, HJ Jeong, SH Jang, SY Lee, NS Kang… - Microbial Ecology, 2016 - Springer
Speculation surrounds the importance of ecologically cryptic Symbiodinium
spp.(dinoflagellates) that occur at low abundances in reef-building corals and in the …

Multi-gene analysis of Symbiodinium dinoflagellates: a perspective on rarity, symbiosis, and evolution

X Pochon, HM Putnam, RD Gates - PeerJ, 2014 - peerj.com
Symbiodinium, a large group of dinoflagellates, live in symbiosis with marine protists,
invertebrate metazoans, and free-living in the environment. Symbiodinium are functionally …

Reef endemism, host specificity and temporal stability in populations of symbiotic dinoflagellates from two ecologically dominant Caribbean corals

DJ Thornhill, YU Xiang, WK Fitt, SR Santos - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Background The dinoflagellate genus Symbiodinium forms symbioses with numerous
protistan and invertebrate metazoan hosts. However, few data on symbiont genetic structure …