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 …

The coral microbiome in sickness, in health and in a changing world

CR Voolstra, JB Raina, M Dörr, A Cárdenas… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Stony corals, the engines and engineers of reef ecosystems, face unprecedented threats
from anthropogenic environmental change. Corals are holobionts that comprise the …

[HTML][HTML] Unlocking the genomic potential of Red Sea coral probiotics

I Raimundo, PM Rosado, AR Barno, CP Antony… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The application of beneficial microorganisms for corals (BMC) decreases the bleaching
susceptibility and mortality rate of corals. BMC selection is typically performed via molecular …

Tissue-associated and vertically transmitted bacterial symbiont in the coral Pocillopora acuta

J Maire, SJ Tsang Min Ching, K Damjanovic… - The ISME …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Coral microhabitats are colonized by a myriad of microorganisms, including diverse bacteria
which are essential for host functioning and survival. However, the location, transmission …

A targeted approach to enrich host-associated bacteria for metagenomic sequencing

AM Dungan, K Tandon, V Jameson, CR Gotze… - FEMS …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Multicellular eukaryotic organisms are hosts to communities of bacteria that reside on or
inside their tissues. Often the eukaryotic members of the system contribute to high …

[HTML][HTML] Holobiont responses of mesophotic precious red coral Corallium rubrum to thermal anomalies

R Tignat-Perrier, JAJM van de Water… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Marine heat waves (MHWs) have increased in frequency and intensity worldwide, causing
mass mortality of benthic organisms and loss of biodiversity in shallow waters. The …

SeqCode in the golden age of prokaryotic systematics

DJ Jiménez, AS Rosado - The ISME Journal, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The SeqCode is a new code of prokaryotic nomenclature that was developed to validate
taxon names using genome sequences as the type material. The present article provides an …

[HTML][HTML] Insights and achievements from the Tara Pacific expedition

S Planes, D Allemand - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
The Tara Pacific program and expedition focused on coral reefs across the Pacific Ocean
and used a coordinated sampling effort to address questions at multiple scales using a …

The community stability of Symbiodiniaceae and bacteria of different morphological corals and linkages to coral susceptibility to anthropogenic disturbance

RW Chen, Z Li, J Huang, X Liu, W Zhu, Y Li, A Wang… - Coral Reefs, 2024 - Springer
Variously shaped corals, such as branching and massive corals, exhibit divergent
environmental susceptibility properties. The susceptibility potential of these corals may be …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …