Extending the natural adaptive capacity of coral holobionts

CR Voolstra, DJ Suggett, RS Peixoto… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change and environmental degradation destroy coral reefs, the
ecosystem services they provide, and the livelihoods of close to a billion people who …

The coral microbiome: towards an understanding of the molecular mechanisms of coral–microbiota interactions

AR Mohamed, MA Ochsenkühn… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Corals live in a complex, multipartite symbiosis with diverse microbes across kingdoms,
some of which are implicated in vital functions, such as those related to resilience against …

Microbiota mediated plasticity promotes thermal adaptation in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis

L Baldassarre, H Ying, AM Reitzel… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
At the current rate of climate change, it is unlikely that multicellular organisms will be able to
adapt to changing environmental conditions through genetic recombination and natural …

Rapid adaptive responses to climate change in corals

G Torda, JM Donelson, M Aranda, DJ Barshis… - Nature Climate …, 2017 - nature.com
Pivotal to projecting the fate of coral reefs is the capacity of reef-building corals to
acclimatize and adapt to climate change. Transgenerational plasticity may enable some …

Horizon scanning the application of probiotics for wildlife

N Garcias-Bonet, A Roik, B Tierney, FC García… - Trends in …, 2023 - cell.com
The provision of probiotics benefits the health of a wide range of organisms, from humans to
animals and plants. Probiotics can enhance stress resilience of endangered organisms …

Heat-evolved microalgal symbionts increase coral bleaching tolerance

P Buerger, C Alvarez-Roa, CW Coppin, SL Pearce… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Coral reefs worldwide are suffering mass mortalities from marine heat waves. With the aim of
enhancing coral bleaching tolerance, we evolved 10 clonal strains of a common coral …

Principles for coral reef restoration in the anthropocene

TP Hughes, AH Baird, TH Morrison, G Torda - One Earth, 2023 - cell.com
Coral reefs are critically important ecosystems that support coastal societies and economies
throughout the tropical oceans. However, many of the word's coral reefs are already …

Coral bleaching patterns are the outcome of complex biological and environmental networking

DJ Suggett, DJ Smith - Global Change Biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Continued declines in coral reef health over the past three decades have been punctuated
by severe mass coral bleaching‐induced mortality events that have grown in intensity and …

Coral restoration and adaptation in Australia: The first five years

IM McLeod, MY Hein, R Babcock, L Bay, DG Bourne… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
While coral reefs in Australia have historically been a showcase of conventional
management informed by research, recent declines in coral cover have triggered efforts to …

Coral reef population genomics in an age of global change

ML Pinsky, RD Clark, JT Bos - Annual Review of Genetics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Coral reefs are both exceptionally biodiverse and threatened by climate change and other
human activities. Here, we review population genomic processes in coral reef taxa and their …