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Coral conservation in a warming world must harness evolutionary adaptation
To facilitate evolutionary adaptation to climate change, we must protect networks of coral reefs that span a range of environmental conditions — not just apparent ‘refugia’.
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Open AccessPhysiological and ecological consequences of the water optical properties degradation on reef corals
Degradation of water optical properties due to anthropogenic disturbances is a common phenomenon in coastal waters globally. Although this condition is associated with multiple drivers that affect corals healt...
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Open AccessEnergy depletion and opportunistic microbial colonisation in white syndrome lesions from corals across the Indo-Pacific
Corals are dependent upon lipids as energy reserves to mount a metabolic response to biotic and abiotic challenges. This study profiled lipids, fatty acids, and microbial communities of healthy and white syndr...
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Open AccessSurviving marginalized reefs: assessing the implications of the microbiome on coral physiology and survivorship
Coral reefs are undergoing degradation due to overexploitation, pollution, and climate change. Management and restoration efforts require that we gain a better understanding of the complex interactions between...
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Coral Microbiomes as Bioindicators of Reef Health
Coral reefs are currently in steep decline worldwide due to changes in climate and anthropogenic activity. Given reefs’ key roles as centers of biodiversity and the variety of services they provide for humans,...
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Open AccessCharacterization of coral-associated microbial aggregates (CAMAs) within tissues of the coral Acropora hyacinthus
Bacterial diversity associated with corals has been studied extensively, however, localization of bacterial associations within the holobiont is still poorly resolved. Here we provide novel insight into the lo...
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Open AccessCoral-associated bacteria demonstrate phylosymbiosis and cophylogeny
Scleractinian corals’ microbial symbionts influence host health, yet how coral microbiomes assembled over evolution is not well understood. We survey bacterial and archaeal communities in phylogenetically dive...
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Intra- and interspecific variation and phenotypic plasticity in thylakoid membrane properties across two Symbiodinium clades
Coral photosynthetic endosymbionts (Symbiodinium) are phylogenetically very diverse, yet the extent of inter- and intraspecific functional variation within clades remains largely underexplored. Understanding this...
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Visualization of coral host–pathogen interactions using a stable GFP-labeled Vibrio coralliilyticus strain
The bacterium Vibrio coralliilyticus has been implicated as the causative agent of coral tissue loss diseases (collectively known as white syndromes) at sites across the Indo-Pacific and represents an emerging mo...
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Crown-of-thorns starfish predation and physical injuries promote brown band disease on corals
Brown band (BrB) disease manifests on corals as a ciliate-dominated lesion that typically progresses rapidly causing extensive mortality, but it is unclear whether the dominant ciliate Porpostoma guamense is a pr...
