[HTML][HTML] Coral holobionts and biotechnology: from Blue Economy to coral reef conservation

JAJM van de Water, R Tignat-Perrier… - Current Opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Ecosystem services provided by corals are important for Blue Economy, but
anthropogenic stressors threaten coral survival.•Potential of coral holobiont-derived Natural …

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 …

Characterization of morpho-functional traits in mesophotic corals reveals optimized light capture and photosynthesis

N Kramer, J Guan, S Chen, D Wangpraseurt, Y Loya - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
The morphology and skeleton architecture of photosynthetic corals modulates the light
capture and functioning of the coral-algal symbiosis on shallow-water corals. Since corals …

Dissolved organic matter from tropical peatlands impacts shelf sea light availability on coral reefs in the Singapore Strait, Southeast Asia

P Martin, N Sanwlani, TWQ Lee, JMC Wong, K Chang… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Shelf seas provide valuable ecosystem services, but their productivity and ecological
functioning depend critically on sunlight transmitted through the water column …