Reconciling the variability in the biological response of marine invertebrates to climate change

Z Dellaert, HM Putnam - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
As climate change increases the rate of environmental change and the frequency and
intensity of disturbance events, selective forces intensify. However, given the complicated …

Expression plasticity regulates intraspecific variation in the acclimatization potential of a reef-building coral

C Drury, J Dilworth, E Majerová, C Caruso… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Phenotypic plasticity is an important ecological and evolutionary response for organisms
experiencing environmental change, but the ubiquity of this capacity within coral species …

Metabolomic signatures of corals thriving across extreme reef habitats reveal strategies of heat stress tolerance

TD Haydon, JL Matthews… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Anthropogenic stressors continue to escalate worldwide, driving unprecedented declines in
reef environmental conditions and coral health. One approach to better understand how …

Selecting heat-tolerant corals for proactive reef restoration

C Caruso, K Hughes, C Drury - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Coral reef restoration is an attractive tool for the management of degraded reefs; however,
conventional restoration approaches will not be effective under climate change. More …

Exploring microbiome engineering as a strategy for improved thermal tolerance in Exaiptasia diaphana

AM Dungan, LM Hartman, LL Blackall… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Aims Fourteen percent of all living coral, equivalent to more than all the coral on the Great
Barrier Reef, has died in the past decade as a result of climate change‐driven bleaching …

Lack of evidence for the oxidative stress theory of bleaching in the sea anemone, Exaiptasia diaphana, under elevated temperature

AM Dungan, J Maire, A Perez-Gonzalez, LL Blackall… - Coral Reefs, 2022 - Springer
To survive in nutrient-poor waters corals rely on a symbiotic association with intracellular
microalgae. However, increased sea temperatures cause algal loss—known as coral …

Life-stage specificity and temporal variations in transcriptomes and DNA methylomes of the reef coral Pocillopora damicornis in response to thermal acclimation

L Jiang, P Zhang, LT Huang, XL Yu, CY Liu… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding the acclimation capacity of reef corals across generations to thermal stress
and its underlying molecular underpinnings could provide insights into their resilience and …

Loss of coral thermotolerance following year-long in situ nursery propagation with a consecutively high summer heat-load

R Alderdice, CR Voolstra, CIN Lendo, C Boote… - Coral Reefs, 2024 - Springer
Exposure to more frequent ocean warming events is driving the loss of coral reef cover as
the window of recovery between episodes of bleaching reduces. Coral propagation via in …

Microbial community and transcriptional responses to V. coralliilyticus stress in coral Favites halicora and Pocillopora damicornis holobiont

S Wang, C Lu, Q Zhang, X He, W Wang, J Li… - Marine Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Variability in coral hosts susceptibility to Vibrio coralliilyticus is well-documented; however,
the comprehensive understanding of tolerance of response to pathogen among coral …

Thermal preconditioning modulates coral physiology and heat tolerance: A multi-species perspective

EF Ferrara, A Roik, F Woehrmann-Zipf, M Ziegler - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Global warming threatens reef-building corals by challenging their natural adaptive capacity.
Therefore, interventions such as stress hardening by thermal preconditioning could become …