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

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 …

Viruses infect all kingdoms of marine life from bacteria to whales. Viruses in the world's
oceans play important roles in the mortality of phytoplankton, and as drivers of evolution and …

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

Viruses can affect coral health by infecting their symbiotic dinoflagellate partners
(Symbiodiniaceae). Yet, viral dynamics in coral colonies exposed to environmental stress …

Endogenous viral elements (EVEs) offer insight into the evolutionary histories and hosts of
contemporary viruses. This study leveraged DNA metagenomics and genomics to detect …

Coral reefs are among the most biodiverse biological systems on earth. Corals are classified
as marine invertebrates and filter the surrounding food and other particles in seawater …

Eukaryotic viruses and bacteriophage have been implicated in disease and bleaching in
corals, but the compositional and functional diversity of these viruses in healthy and …

Half of the marine virosphere is hypothesized to be RNA viruses (kingdom Orthornavirae)
that infect abundant micro-eukaryotic hosts (eg protists). To test this, quantitative approaches …

Climate change-driven ocean warming is increasing the frequency and severity of bleaching
events, in which corals appear whitened after losing their dinoflagellate endosymbionts …