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 …

A research review of interventions to increase the persistence and resilience of coral reefs

National Academies of Sciences, Division on Earth… - 2019 - books.google.com
Coral reef declines have been recorded for all major tropical ocean basins since the 1980s,
averaging approximately 30-50% reductions in reef cover globally. These losses are a result …

Population genetics of the coral Acropora millepora: Toward genomic prediction of bleaching

ZL Fuller, VJL Mocellin, LA Morris, N Cantin… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Coral reefs worldwide are suffering losses at an alarming rate as a result of
anthropogenic climate change. Increased seawater temperatures, even only slightly above …

Meta‐analysis of the coral environmental stress response: Acropora corals show opposing responses depending on stress intensity

G Dixon, E Abbott, M Matz - Molecular Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
As climate change progresses, reef‐building corals must contend more often with
suboptimal conditions, motivating a need to understand coral stress response. Here, we test …

Mechanisms of thermal tolerance in reef-building corals across a fine-grained environmental mosaic: lessons from Ofu, American Samoa

L Thomas, NH Rose, RA Bay, EH López… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Environmental heterogeneity gives rise to phenotypic variation through a combination of
phenotypic plasticity and fixed genetic effects. For reef-building corals, understanding the …

The immediate costs and long‐term benefits of assisted gene flow in large populations

JA Grummer, TR Booker, R Matthey‐Doret… - Conservation …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
With the genetic health of many plant and animal populations deteriorating due to climate
change outpacing adaptation, interventions, such as assisted gene flow (AGF), may provide …

Marine heatwaves threaten cryptic coral diversity and erode associations among coevolving partners

S Starko, JE Fifer, DC Claar, SW Davies, R Cunning… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Climate change–amplified marine heatwaves can drive extensive mortality in foundation
species. However, a paucity of longitudinal genomic datasets has impeded understanding of …

Resilience in reef‐building corals: The ecological and evolutionary importance of the host response to thermal stress

C Drury - Molecular ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Coral reefs are under extreme threat due to a number of stressors, but temperature
increases due to changing climate are the most severe. Rising ocean temperatures coupled …

Morphological stasis masks ecologically divergent coral species on tropical reefs

P Bongaerts, IR Cooke, H Ying, D Wels, S den Haan… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Coral reefs are the epitome of species diversity, yet the number of described scleractinian
coral species, the framework-builders of coral reefs, remains moderate by comparison. DNA …

Climatic similarity and genomic background shape the extent of parallel adaptation in Timema stick insects

S Chaturvedi, Z Gompert, JL Feder… - Nature ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Evolution can repeat itself, resulting in parallel adaptations in independent lineages
occupying similar environments. Moreover, parallel evolution sometimes, but not always …