A decade of population genetics studies of scleractinian corals: A systematic review

V Alvarado-Cerón, AI Muñiz-Castillo… - Marine Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Coral reefs are the most diverse marine ecosystems. However, coral cover has decreased
worldwide due to natural disturbances, climate change, and local anthropogenic drivers. In …

Naturally occurring fire coral clones demonstrate a genetic and environmental basis of microbiome composition

CE Dubé, M Ziegler, A Mercière, E Boissin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Coral microbiomes are critical to holobiont functioning, but much remains to be understood
about how prevailing environment and host genotype affect microbial communities in …

Parentage analyses identify local dispersal events and sibling aggregations in a natural population of Millepora hydrocorals, a free‐spawning marine invertebrate

CE Dubé, E Boissin, A Mercière, S Planes - Molecular Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Dispersal is a critical process for the persistence and productivity of marine populations. For
many reef species, there is increasing evidence that local demography and self‐recruitment …

An integrated morpho-molecular approach to delineate species boundaries of Millepora from the Red Sea

R Arrigoni, D Maggioni, S Montano, BW Hoeksema… - Coral Reefs, 2018 - Springer
Fire corals of the hydrocoral genus Millepora provide an important ecological role as
framework builders of coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific and the Atlantic. Recent works have …

Development of 26 highly polymorphic microsatellite markers for the highly endangered fan mussel Pinna nobilis and cross-species amplification

C Peyran, S Planes, N Tolou, G Iwankow… - Molecular Biology …, 2020 - Springer
The fan mussel, Pinna nobilis is a highly endangered bivalve species endemic to the
Mediterranean Sea. During the last few decades, populations have been greatly reduced …

Hybridization, characterization and transferability of SSRs in the genus Morchella

XH Du, H Wang, J Sun, L Xiong, J Yu - Fungal Biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Recently, Morchella importuna, M. sextelata, M. eximia, M. exuberans, Mel-13, and Mel-21
have been successfully cultivated in China and planting areas rapidly expanded because of …

Fire coral clones demonstrate phenotypic plasticity among reef habitats

CE Dubé, E Boissin, JA Maynard… - Molecular Ecology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Clonal populations are often characterized by reduced levels of genotypic diversity, which
can translate into lower numbers of functional phenotypes, both of which impede adaptation …

Ecology, biology and genetics of Millepora hydrocorals on coral reefs

CE Dubé, CAF Bourmaud, A Mercière… - Invertebrates …, 2019 - books.google.com
Coral reefs are one of the most productive and diverse ecosystems on Earth. However,
climate warming is occurring at an unprecedented rate and has negatively affected coral …

Population structure of the hydrocoral Millepora platyphylla in habitats experiencing different flow regimes in Moorea, French Polynesia

CE Dubé, A Mercière, MJA Vermeij, S Planes - PLoS One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
While the fire coral Millepora platyphylla is an important component of Indo-Pacific reefs,
where it thrives in a wide range of environments, the ecological and biological processes …

Development of novel microsatellite marker sets for 5 common tropical hydrozoan species (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the Southwestern Indian Ocean

D Ory, C Mouronvalle, P Chabanet… - Molecular Biology …, 2025 - Springer
Background In the context of global change, coral reefs and their associated biodiversity are
under threat. Several conservation strategies using population genetics have been explored …