Harnessing the power of model organisms to unravel microbial functions in the coral holobiont

G Puntin, M Sweet, S Fraune, M Medina… - Microbiology and …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Stony corals build the framework of coral reefs, ecosystems of immense ecological and
economic importance. The existence of these ecosystems is threatened by climate change …

The past, present, and future of coral heat stress studies

MJ Cziesielski, S Schmidt‐Roach… - Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The global loss and degradation of coral reefs, as a result of intensified frequency and
severity of bleaching events, is a major concern. Evidence of heat stress affecting corals …

Heat stress destabilizes symbiotic nutrient cycling in corals

N Rädecker, C Pogoreutz, HM Gegner… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Recurrent mass bleaching events are pushing coral reefs worldwide to the brink of
ecological collapse. While the symptoms and consequences of this breakdown of the coral …

cGLRs are a diverse family of pattern recognition receptors in innate immunity

Y Li, KM Slavik, HC Toyoda, BR Morehouse… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Summary Cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS) is an enzyme in human cells that controls an
immune response to cytosolic DNA. Upon binding DNA, cGAS synthesizes a nucleotide …

A stony coral cell atlas illuminates the molecular and cellular basis of coral symbiosis, calcification, and immunity

S Levy, A Elek, X Grau-Bové, S Menéndez-Bravo… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Stony corals are colonial cnidarians that sustain the most biodiverse marine ecosystems on
Earth: coral reefs. Despite their ecological importance, little is known about the cell types …

Population genetics of the coral Acropora millepora: Toward genomic prediction of bleaching

ZL Fuller, VJL Mocellin, LA Morris, N Cantin… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Coral reefs worldwide are suffering losses at an alarming rate as a result of
anthropogenic climate change. Increased seawater temperatures, even only slightly above …

A genomic view of the reef-building coral Porites lutea and its microbial symbionts

SJ Robbins, CM Singleton, CX Chan, LF Messer… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Corals and the reef ecosystems that they support are in global decline due to increasing
anthropogenic pressures such as climate change. However, effective reef conservation …

Topological structures and syntenic conservation in sea anemone genomes

B Zimmermann, JD Montenegro, SMC Robb… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
There is currently little information about the evolution of gene clusters, genome
architectures and karyotypes in early branching animals. Slowly evolving anthozoan …

Coral bacterial community structure responds to environmental change in a host-specific manner

M Ziegler, CGB Grupstra, MM Barreto, M Eaton… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The global decline of coral reefs heightens the need to understand how corals respond to
changing environmental conditions. Corals are metaorganisms, so-called holobionts, and …

Fast and pervasive transcriptomic resilience and acclimation of extremely heat-tolerant coral holobionts from the northern Red Sea

R Savary, DJ Barshis, CR Voolstra… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Corals from the northern Red Sea and Gulf of Aqaba exhibit extreme thermal tolerance. To
examine the underlying gene expression dynamics, we exposed Stylophora pistillata from …