Deciphering coral disease dynamics: integrating host, microbiome, and the changing environment

R Vega Thurber, LD Mydlarz, M Brandt… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Diseases of tropical reef organisms is an intensive area of study, but despite significant
advances in methodology and the global knowledge base, identifying the proximate causes …

Probiotics for coral aquaculture: challenges and considerations

C Thatcher, L Høj, DG Bourne - Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Large-scale coral aquaculture is required to provide stock for reef restoration
efforts and the growing coral aquarium trade.•Probiotics can aid coral aquaculture through …

A meta-analysis of the stony coral tissue loss disease microbiome finds key bacteria in unaffected and lesion tissue in diseased colonies

SM Rosales, LK Huebner, JS Evans… - ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) has been causing significant whole colony mortality
on reefs in Florida and the Caribbean. The cause of SCTLD remains unknown, with the …

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 …

Host traits and phylogeny contribute to shaping coral-bacterial symbioses

F Ricci, K Tandon, JR Black, KA Lê Cao, LL Blackall… - Msystems, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
The success of tropical scleractinian corals depends on their ability to establish symbioses
with microbial partners. Host phylogeny and traits are known to shape the coral microbiome …

Bacterial metabolic potential and micro-eukaryotes enriched in stony coral tissue loss disease lesions

SM Rosales, LK Huebner, AS Clark… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The epizootic disease outbreak known as stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is
arguably the most devastating coral disease in recorded history. SCTLD emerged off the …

Geographically driven differences in microbiomes of Acropora cervicornis originating from different regions of Florida's Coral Reef

SD Williams, JG Klinges, S Zinman, AS Clark, E Bartels… - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Effective coral restoration must include comprehensive investigations of the targeted coral
community that consider all aspects of the coral holobiont—the coral host, symbiotic algae …

Parasitic 'Candidatus Aquarickettsia rohweri' is a marker of disease susceptibility in Acropora cervicornis but is lost during thermal stress

G Klinges, RL Maher, RL Vega Thurber… - Environmental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Holobiont phenotype results from a combination of host and symbiont genotypes as well as
from prevailing environmental conditions that alter the relationships among symbiotic …

Metabolomics approaches to dereplicate natural products from coral-derived bioactive bacteria

JM Deutsch, P Mandelare-Ruiz, Y Yang… - Journal of natural …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Stony corals (Scleractinia) are invertebrates that form symbiotic relationships with eukaryotic
algal endosymbionts and the prokaryotic microbiome. The microbiome has the potential to …

Characterization of the microbiome of corals with stony coral tissue loss disease along Florida's coral reef

AS Clark, SD Williams, K Maxwell, SM Rosales… - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is an emergent and often lethal coral disease that
was first reported near Miami, FL (USA) in 2014. Our objective was to determine if coral …