Cyanobacteria in coral reef ecosystems: a review

L Charpy, BE Casareto, MJ Langlade… - Journal of Marine …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Cyanobacteria have dominated marine environments and have been reef builders on Earth
for more than three million years (myr). Cyanobacteria still play an essential role in modern …

Reefs under siege—the rise, putative drivers, and consequences of benthic cyanobacterial mats

AK Ford, S Bejarano, MM Nugues, PM Visser… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Benthic cyanobacteria have commonly been a small but integral component of coral reef
ecosystems, fulfilling the critical function of introducing bioavailable nitrogen to an inherently …

Five chemically rich species of tropical marine cyanobacteria of the genus Okeania gen. nov. (Oscillatoriales, Cyanoprokaryota)

N Engene, VJ Paul, T Byrum, WH Gerwick… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
An adverse consequence of applying morphology‐based taxonomic systems to catalog
cyanobacteria, which generally are limited in the number of available morphological …

High diversity of benthic cyanobacterial mats on coral reefs of Koh Tao, Gulf of Thailand

TM Stuij, DFR Cleary, NCM Gomes, R Mehrotra… - Coral Reefs, 2023 - Springer
Benthic cyanobacterial mats are increasingly reported to cover major coral reef areas.
Although suggestions have been made that cyanobacterial mats impair coral reef health in …

First Evidence of Palytoxin and 42-Hydroxy-palytoxin in the Marine Cyanobacterium Trichodesmium

AS Kerbrat, Z Amzil, R Pawlowiez, S Golubic, M Sibat… - Marine drugs, 2011 - mdpi.com
Marine pelagic diazotrophic cyanobacteria of the genus Trichodesmium (Oscillatoriales) are
widespread throughout the tropics and subtropics, and are particularly common in the …

Organic matter degradation drives benthic cyanobacterial mat abundance on Caribbean coral reefs

HJ Brocke, L Polerecky, D De Beer, M Weber… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Benthic cyanobacterial mats (BCMs) are impacting coral reefs worldwide. However, the
factors and mechanisms driving their proliferation are unclear. We conducted a multi-year …

Shotgun metagenomic sequencing reveals the full taxonomic, trophic, and functional diversity of a coral reef benthic cyanobacterial mat from Bonaire, Caribbean …

EC Cissell, SJ McCoy - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic forcing is spurring cyanobacterial proliferation in aquatic ecosystems
worldwide. While planktonic cyanobacterial blooms have received substantial research …

New directions in coral reef microbial ecology

M Garren, F Azam - Environmental Microbiology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial processes largely control the health and resilience of coral reef ecosystems, and
new technologies have led to an exciting wave of discovery regarding the mechanisms by …

High dissolved organic carbon release by benthic cyanobacterial mats in a Caribbean reef ecosystem

HJ Brocke, F Wenzhoefer, D De Beer, B Mueller… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Benthic cyanobacterial mats (BCMs) are increasing in abundance on coral reefs worldwide.
However, their impacts on biogeochemical cycling in the surrounding water and sediment …

Axenic Biofilm Formation and Aggregation by Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 6803 Are Induced by Changes in Nutrient Concentration and Require Cell Surface …

R Allen, BE Rittmann, R Curtiss III - Applied and environmental …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Phototrophic biofilms are key to nutrient cycling in natural environments and bioremediation
technologies, but few studies describe biofilm formation by pure (axenic) cultures of a …