Beneath the surface: community assembly and functions of the coral skeleton microbiome

F Ricci, V Rossetto Marcelino, LL Blackall, M Kühl… - Microbiome, 2019 - Springer
Coral microbial ecology is a burgeoning field, driven by the urgency of understanding coral
health and slowing reef loss due to climate change. Coral resilience depends on its …

Think outside the box: 3D bioprinting concepts for biotechnological applications–recent developments and future perspectives

F Krujatz, S Dani, J Windisch, J Emmermacher… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract 3D bioprinting–the fabrication of geometrically complex 3D structures from
biocompatible materials containing living cells using additive manufacturing technologies–is …

Deoxygenation lowers the thermal threshold of coral bleaching

R Alderdice, G Perna, A Cárdenas, BCC Hume… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Exposure to deoxygenation from climate warming and pollution is emerging as a
contributing factor of coral bleaching and mortality. However, the combined effects of heating …

Bionic 3D printed corals

D Wangpraseurt, S You, F Azam, G Jacucci… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Corals have evolved as optimized photon augmentation systems, leading to space-efficient
microalgal growth and outstanding photosynthetic quantum efficiencies. Light attenuation …

Host–symbiont combinations dictate the photo-physiological response of reef-building corals to thermal stress

KD Hoadley, AM Lewis, DC Wham, DT Pettay… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
High sea surface temperatures often lead to coral bleaching wherein reef-building corals
lose significant numbers of their endosymbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodiniaceae). These …

Microbial community and transcriptional responses to increased temperatures in coral Pocillopora damicornis holobiont

J Li, L Long, Y Zou, S Zhang - Environmental microbiology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A few studies have holistically examined successive changes in coral holobionts in
response to increased temperatures. Here, responses of the coral host Pocillopora …

The role of the endolithic alga Ostreobium spp. during coral bleaching recovery

CT Galindo-Martínez, M Weber, V Avila-Magaña… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
In this study, we explore how the Caribbean coral Orbicella faveolata recovers after
bleaching, using fragments from 13 coral colonies exposed to heat stress (32° C) for ten …

Green fluorescent protein-like pigments optimise the internal light environment in symbiotic reef-building corals

E Bollati, NH Lyndby, C D'Angelo, M Kühl… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Pigments homologous to the green fluorescent protein (GFP) have been proposed to fine-
tune the internal light microclimate of corals, facilitating photoacclimation of photosynthetic …

Efficient light‐harvesting of mesophotic corals is facilitated by coral optical traits

N Kramer, R Tamir, O Ben‐Zvi, SL Jacques… - Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sustained light‐dependent coral reef communities can be found at a wide range of light
environments, extending from the sea level to as deep as 150 m (ie esophotic). How …

Q-switch-pumped supercontinuum for ultra-high resolution optical coherence tomography

M Maria, I Bravo Gonzalo, T Feuchter, M Denninger… - Optics letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
In this Letter, we investigate the possibility of using a commercially available Q-switch-
pumped supercontinuum (QS-SC) source, operating in the kilohertz regime, for ultra-high …