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Estimating the heritable genetic variation in fitness-related traits is key to projecting the adaptive evolution of organisms in response to a changing environment. While heritability studies on reef-building ...
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Microbiome studies across taxa have established the influence of host genotype on microbial recruitment and maintenance. However, research exploring host-specific epibionts in scleractinian corals is scant, an...
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Can Gene Expression Studies Inform Coral Reef Conservation and Restoration?
Quantitative gene expression analyses have contributed to resolving the genomic basis of key physiological traits and increased understanding of coral adaptive capacity. In addition, a large and growing number...
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Novel reference transcriptomes for the sponges Carteriospongia foliascens and Cliona orientalis and associated algal symbiont Gerakladium endoclionum
Sponge transcriptomes are important resources for studying the stress responses of these ecologically important filter feeders, the interactions between sponges and their symbionts, and the evolutionary histor...
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Open AccessTransgenerational inheritance of shuffled symbiont communities in the coral Montipora digitata
Adult organisms may “prime” their offspring for environmental change through a number of genetic and non-genetic mechanisms, termed parental effects. Some coral species may shuffle the proportions of Symbiodin...
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Modeled differences of coral life-history traits influence the refugium potential of a remote Caribbean reef
Remote populations can influence connectivity and may serve as refugia from climate change. We investigated two reef-building corals (Pseudodiploria strigosa and Orbicella franksi) from the Flower Garden Banks (F...
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Open AccessIntraspecific differences in molecular stress responses and coral pathobiome contribute to mortality under bacterial challenge in Acropora millepora
Disease causes significant coral mortality worldwide; however, factors responsible for intraspecific variation in disease resistance remain unclear. We exposed fragments of eight Acropora millepora colonies (geno...
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Gene expression plasticity as a mechanism of coral adaptation to a variable environment
Local adaptation is ubiquitous, but the molecular mechanisms that give rise to this ecological phenomenon remain largely unknown. A year-long reciprocal transplant of mustard hill coral (Porites astreoides) betwe...
