Frenemies on the reef? Resolving the coral–Endozoicomonas association

C Pogoreutz, M Ziegler - Trends in Microbiology, 2024 - cell.com
Stony corals are poster child holobionts due to their intimate association with diverse
microorganisms from all domains of life. We are only beginning to understand the diverse …

Ecology of Endozoicomonadaceae in three coral genera across the Pacific Ocean

C Hochart, L Paoli, HJ Ruscheweyh, G Salazar… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Health and resilience of the coral holobiont depend on diverse bacterial communities often
dominated by key marine symbionts of the Endozoicomonadaceae family. The factors …

Contrasting heat stress response patterns of coral holobionts across the Red Sea suggest distinct mechanisms of thermal tolerance

CR Voolstra, JJ Valenzuela, S Turkarslan… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Corals from the northern Red Sea, in particular the Gulf of Aqaba (GoA), have exceptionally
high bleaching thresholds approaching> 5℃ above their maximum monthly mean (MMM) …

Unveiling microbiome changes in Mediterranean octocorals during the 2022 marine heatwaves: quantifying key bacterial symbionts and potential pathogens

C Prioux, R Tignat-Perrier, O Gervais, T Estaque… - Microbiome, 2023 - Springer
Background Climate change has accelerated the occurrence and severity of heatwaves in
the Mediterranean Sea and poses a significant threat to the octocoral species that form the …

How does the coral microbiome mediate its natural host fitness under climate stress conditions? Physiological, molecular, and biochemical mechanisms

S Abdelghany, SM Simancas-Giraldo, A Zayed… - Marine Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Although the symbiotic partnership between corals and algal endosymbionts has been
extensively explored, interactions between corals, their algal endosymbionts and microbial …

Temporal gene expression patterns in the coral Euphyllia paradivisa reveal the complexity of biological clocks in the cnidarian-algal symbiosis

M Rinsky, E Weizman, HW Ben-Asher, G Eyal… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Studying chronobiology in reef-building corals is challenging due to the tightly coupled
symbiosis with their photosynthetic algae, Symbiodiniaceae. Although symbiosis requires …

Survival strategy of comammox bacteria in a wastewater nutrient removal system with sludge fermentation liquid as additional carbon source

S Xu, W Chai, R Xiao, BF Smets, A Palomo… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Complete ammonia oxidizing (comammox) bacteria are frequently detected in wastewater
biological nutrient removal (BNR) systems. This study identified “Candidatus Nitrospira …

DNA from non-viable bacteria biases diversity estimates in the corals Acropora loripes and Pocillopora acuta

AM Dungan, L Geissler, AS Williams, CR Gotze… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Background Nucleic acid-based analytical methods have greatly expanded our
understanding of global prokaryotic diversity, yet standard metabarcoding methods provide …

Changes in the Bacterial Community Associated With Experimental Symbiont Loss in the Mucus Layer of Cassiopea xamachana Jellyfish

N Carabantes, D Cerqueda-García… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cassiopea xamachana is a model system for studies in animal symbiosis with algal
symbionts. This medusa is also associated with a microbial community that can impact its …

Mitigation of Vibrio coralliilyticus-induced coral bleaching through bacterial dysbiosis prevention by Ruegeria profundi

M Xu, Z Cai, K Cheng, G Chen… - Applied and Environmental …, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Vibrio species are prevalent in ocean ecosystems, particularly Vibrio coralliilyticus, and pose
a threat to corals and other marine organisms under global warming conditions. While …