The term “core microbiome” has become widely used in microbial ecology over the last
decade. Broadly, the core microbiome refers to any set of microbial taxa, or the genomic and …

Anthropogenic climate change and environmental degradation destroy coral reefs, the
ecosystem services they provide, and the livelihoods of close to a billion people who …

Beneficial microorganisms for corals (BMCs) ameliorate environmental stress, but whether
they can prevent mortality and the underlying host response mechanisms remains elusive …

Animals and plants are metaorganisms and associate with microbes that affect their
physiology, stress tolerance, and fitness. Here the hypothesis that alteration of the …

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 …

From protists to humans, all animals and plants are inhabited by microbial organisms. There
is an increasing appreciation that these resident microbes influence the fitness of their plant …

Coral microbiomes are critical to holobiont functioning, but much remains to be understood
about how prevailing environment and host genotype affect microbial communities in …

Although it is well established that the microbial communities inhabiting corals perform key
functions that promote the health and persistence of their hosts, little is known about their …

It has been proposed that an effective approach for predicting whether and how reef-forming
corals persist under future climate change is to examine populations thriving in present day …

Coral research is being ushered into the genomic era. To fully capitalize on the potential
discoveries from this genomic revolution, the rapidly increasing number of high-quality …